YOL. 2.

WHOLESALE

S.A.W ELUN6
SEFS FmHISHUlG GOODS 
L i f e ] »  M t o  
FISHING  TACKLE

N O T I O N S !
PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRINGS. ETC.

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 

mail.  Goods shipped promptly to any point.

I am represented on the road bv  the  fol­
lowing  well-known  travelers: 
John  D. 
Mangum, A. M. Sprague, John H. Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna and A. B. Handricks.

24 Pearl Street 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

C. S. 1. VOIGT & CO.
STAR  MILLS,

Proprietors  of the

Manufacturers of the  following  pop­

ular brands  of Flour.

“ STAR,”

“ GOLDEN  SHEAF,”

“ LADIES’  DELIGHT,” 
And “OUR PATENT.”

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  PROPRIETOR.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at­

tended  to.

m m ,  

j o i s   &  co.

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 

Flavoring Extracts, 
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

C R E A M   T E S T E R !
With six glasses for testing six  cows’  milk  at 
same  time.  Price  $1;  large  size  glasses  $2, 
either free by mail.  Agents wanted. Circulars 
with  full  particulars  for  stamp.  WYMAN 
L.  EDSON,  Union  Center.  Broome  Co., N. Y.

SALT.

ONONDAGA F. F. SALT
AMERICAN  DAIRY  SALT  CO.

Sole Manufacturers. 

(Limited.)  Chemically purified and W a r r a n t ­
e d  pure as any in the market.  Used by a great 
majority of the Dairymen of the country.  Un­
excelled for Butter, Cheese, the Table  and  all 
Culinary  purposes.  Got medal at Centennial 
“for  purity  and  high  degree of  excellence.” 
Dairy goods salted with it took first premiums 
at New Orleans  World’s  Fair,  N.  Y.  Interna­
tional Fair, Milwaukee Exposition, and always 
wins  when  there  is  fair  competition. 
It  is 
American, and c h e a p e r   and b e t t e r  than any 
foreign salt.  Try it.  Address
J. "W. Barker, Sec’y, Syracuse, N. Y.

Proprietors  of

C R E S C E N T

FLOURING  MILLS,

Manufacturers  of the  Following  Pop­

ular  lîrands  of Flour :

CRESCENT,”

“ W H ITE  ROSE,”

“ MORNING  GLORY,”  $

“ ROYAL  PATENT,” and 

“ ALL W HEAT,” Flour.
We carry a full  line of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  will  do 
well  to  write  or  see  the

GRAND RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  CO.

71  CANAL  STREET. 

ORDER  A  SAMPLE  BUTT  OF

Mc ALPIN’S

P L U O .

A  RICH  NUTTY CHEW.

Eaton  Si  M e n ,
EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

—T H E —

—AND—

ADVERTISING  SCHEMES.

In  Which  Some  Lose  and  Others  Make 

Their Fortunes.

From the Detroit News.

“Talking about advertising, it’s one of the 
most contradictory  things  that  a  business 
man  can  run  across,  and  I’ve  nearly  got 
bald trying to theorize it.  You  can’t theor­
ize it.  There are certain broad lines  which 
can be laid down,  of course,  but  outside  of 
them it’s actual experience only that counts. 
It’s easy enough to tell which papers to pat­
ronize,  but a man who knows how to fill the 
space you buy,  so as  to  draw,  is  good  for 
from §3,000 to $5,000 a year. 
I  know  half 
a dozen men in town who get more than the 
former figure,  and one who is said to get the 
latter  from  a  Woodward  avenue  clothing 
house.”

The speaker was a member of a firm which 
has probably covered as much territory with 
its advertisements  as  any  house in Detroit, 
and whose newspaper bills in flush times ag­
gregate §100,000  annually.

“I don’t wonder,” he  continued,  “at  the 
ignorance of  the  average  small  advertiser, 
but I  do  at  the  same  failing  in  men  who 
spend far more than myself. 
It’s upon both 
these classes that the innumerable  advertis­
ing schemes which  flood  the  country flour­
ish.  Take railroad  advertising,  for  exam­
ple.  Yet you can’t go into a depot  without 
seeing the walls crowded with framed cards, 
for hanging  which  exhorbitant  prices  are 
charged  and  at  which  nobody looks.  The 
sheets given out on railroads  are  about  the 
same value as an advertising medium.  They 
are rarely put out,  and  when  they are  peo­
ple with money won’t  look  at  them.  Can­
vassers  for  “ads”  on  bills  of  fare,  show 
guides,  city guides,  railroad  guides,  and a 
dozen other ‘snaps’ pester the advertiser and 
keep his  money out of the only  paying me­
diums—the newspapers.

“In the way of  ‘snaps’ the  best swindle I 
ever saw was worked here two summers ago 
by a plausibly talking,  hook-nosed man.  He 
had a big thermometer which he proposed to 
hang in a frame opposite the city hall.  His 
money would come from selling spaces in the 
frame—and it  came.  Mabley  went  in  §40 
worth,  K.  & K.  §35 and others followed suit 
until it made  some  §250.  He  worked  the 
same game at  Winsdor,  and  then  skipped 
with  his  thermometer, 
leaving  a  glazed 
frame worth about §5 as a  memento  of  his 
visit.

“Advertising to be any good must be kept 
up.  A patent-medicine firm here a few years 
ago cleared  850,000  annually  and  invested 
as much in advertising.  A new man bought 
it out who imagined he could go  on  selling 
as much without spending  any  money. 
In 
two  years  he  failed.  On  the  other  hand, 
you can advertise too much.  A big  patent- 
medicine business was started two years ago 
in Toronto which went in on a most  ridicu­
lous scale—whole and half-page ‘ads’ all the 
time in the leading papers. 
It  sank. §250,- 
000 and then petered out.  A big Rochester, 
X.  Y., medicine man,  who is now  the  rich­
est in the country,  is  said  to  have  dropped 
§1,500,000 before  he  got  back  his  money, 
but he was a millionaire and  an  old  adver­
tiser,  and  expected  to,  as  he  covered  the 
whole continent at once.  A leading Detroit 
finn which recently failed,  was  also  a great 
advertising  concern,  though  without  the 
least  system  or  gumption.  You’d  find  a 
page  ‘ad’ in a back-woods  journal,  offering 
for sale things never used outside of a large 
town,  and it was a regular  bonanza  for the 
men who engineered the  ‘snap’ I have spok­
en of.  The  best  advertisers  aren't  always 
the largest.  The best advertisers are  those 
who work scientifically,  and put the  matter 
where it can be seen and appreciated.  That’s 
why newspapers and trade journals  are ap­
preciated as a medium.  But you  don’t  see 
me  in  any  24  or  48-page  editions.  Not 
much!  Money is too hard to get to be thrown 
away in that style.”

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF
T C  ■ F r R Æ i i x r i s . ^ s

“Red Bark Bitters” J E W E L E R ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

---- AND----

78  West  Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

McALPIN’S

Dunham’s  Comhination

Tag  and  Envelope !

THE

Best  and  Cheapest  Method 

Known to Shippers.

Saves  tke  Expense of Postage.

Send  for samples and  prices  to

E. A. Stowe & Bro.,

Manufacturers’  Agents,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

ALLEN’S  ABRIDGED  SYSTEM
BOOK-KEEPING!

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H.  J.  Carr,  book-keeper  for  H.  Leonard  & 
Sons, writes:  “For two  years  and  upwards  I 
have been applying methods  quite  similar to 
those shown in  your  recent  publication,  ‘An 
Abridged System of  Book-keeping,’  and  have 
found  a  decided  saving  of  labor  and  much 
other satisfaction therein.  Hence my belief in 
its  utility,  and  that  what  you have set forth 
will, when rightly understood, merit  attention 
and use.” 
...
Full and complete drafts of rulings, etc., with 
illustrative entries and instructions in pamph­
let form mailed upon receipt of $2.

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With S. A. Welling, 24 Pearl St., Grand Rapids

Is  the  most  Delicious  Chew  on  the 

Market.

SOLD  BY  ALL JOBBERS.

Plug  Togacgo
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WHIPS

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No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

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LASHES

NEW  GOODS.  New 
Prices down to the whale­
bone.  Goods always sale­
able, and always reliable.
Buy close and often.
ORDERS PROMPTLYFILLED

A Merchant’s  Profits.

From Texas Siftings.

A  country  merchant  who  does  all  his 
trading in Austin,  came to town  last  week 
to notify his creditors that lie  had  failed in 
business and could  only pay them ten cents 
on the  dollar.  Among  his  creditors  was 
Mose  Sliaumberg.  The merchant  went  to 
Mose and said to him:

“Mose,  I am  paying  my  creditors  ten 
cents, cash,  on the dollar,  but I  don’t  want 
you to lose anything.  I have not opened that 
last lot of goods I got  from  you,  so  I will 
just return them to  you,  instead  of paying 
you ten cents in cash  on  the  dollar. 
I  am 
willing  to  do  that  because  I  am  your 
friend.

Mose grinned and said:
“Ef you vos a goot frent  by  me  den you 
vill bay me ten cents on  de  dollar,  in cash. 
I makes more money ven you bays ten cents 
dot dollar  on  den  ven  I  takes  de  goots 
pack.”

This little incident will give the public an 
idea how  much profit there is  in  mercantile 
pursuits.

Hop vines,  usually a waste product in this 
country,  are said to have  proved  not  only 
good stock for  paper, but  the  best  substi­
tute yet obtained for  rags  in  French  paper 
mills.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  10,  1885.

Magnetism in  Trade.

The subject of business sociability is worth 
viewing  from  a  commercial  standpoint. 
There is only  here  and  there  a  merchant 
who seems  to  understand  certain  depart­
ments of trade,  and  the  conversational  de­
partment is  perhaps  the  one  least  under­
stood.

Some business men have the idea that the 
talk which must be done  with  customers  is 
a necessary evil,  and so they  leave  it  all to 
their clerks, burying themselves behind their 
ledgers.  Others  commit  a  worse  error by 
putting a crabbed,  surly  man  close  by  the 
entrance to their place  of  business to greet 
all comers and answer their inquiries.  Such 
clerks are lowT-priced,  of course,  and  in ev­
ery case it would be cheaper to pay  them to 
take a European trip than to keep them.

Human nature  is  the  same  everywhei’e, 
and the old “country store” method of trad­
ing had elements of success in it which  can 
never be ignored.  When the  farmer  drove 
up to the store the merchant was on hand to 
meet him as soon as he  alighted  from  his 
wagon.  They exchanged  all  the  news of 
the day while  bartering  their  goods,  and 
parted with mutual good will.  While noth­
ing of this kind is  admissible  in a  big  city 
establishment, the same principle is  carried 
out there by long-headed dealers.  A strange 
clerk conies to the concern  and is put in the 
rear of the store until his abilities are tested. 
By degrees,  if deserving,  he is moved  near­
er and nearer the front  door.  This  promo­
tion often makes  his fellow  clerks  wince, 
but there is no help for them if he lias learn­
ed the art of entertaining the  public for the 
benefit of the finn and they haven’t.

All salesmen on the road fully understand 
the importance of affability with  every cus­
tomer,  and strive to cultivate a good fellow- 
ship which will make them  personally wel­
come, even when their wares are not wanted. 
But some of these  amenities  are  apt  to  be 
forgotten by dealers who are shut up within 
the walls of their stores the year round, and 
have  many  petty  perplexities  to  contend 
against.  Some  men  can’t  possibly  make 
themselves agreeable, no  matter  how  hard 
they try; but the average merchant can well 
afford to hire a  book-keeper  and  take  time 
to be foremost in building up  his own trade 
by personal effort.  There are  many  stores 
in large and small places where people drop 
in to leave their orders  because the  talking 
is well done in them; and  there  are  others 
widen they go out of their way to avoid,  be­
cause the  proprietors  and  clerks  make  a 
bungling job of their entertainment.

No one can measure the power of person­
al magnetism  in  trade,  as  compared  with 
advantageous  location,  extensive  advertis­
ing and other accessories.  There are clerks 
who in changing from one store  to  another 
carry nearly all their trade with them.  And 
there  are  city  merchants  who  visit  their 
branch stores in  the  country  regularly  al­
most wholly  for  the  purpose  of  keeping 
up acquaintance  with  the  customers,  many 
of whom take pains  to do  their  trading on 
the days they can meet the head of  the con­
cern. 
It takes a  long  time  to  build  up a 
first-class reputation for affability, just as it 
does for number one goods and sterling hon­
esty.  And when such a reputation is estab­
lished a few slips on the part  of  the  clerks 
may weaken it  sadly.  How  often  do  we 
hear it said,  “I wish  always  to  trade  with 
so-and-so,  but  I  never  go  there  now,  the 
clerks are so  uncivil.”

An  illustration  of this  truth  has  been 
worked out in a certain  city  witlnn  a few 
months.  A prosperous merchant  who  had 
built up his trade very  largely  on  personal 
popularity,  in  competition  with  larger  es­
tablishments employing much heavier capital 
made two of his clerks partners  in  the con­
cern.  No sooner were these  men  intrusted 
with a little power than they  began  to  dis­
charge the clerks who had served with them 
behind the counters for  years  and  to  make 
themselves  generally obnoxious to the pub­
lic who had been in the habit of patronizing 
them.  The city was  not  a  large  one,  and 
the course these fellows were pursuing soon 
came to he pretty thoroughly known.  As a 
consequence the public began to boycott the 
concern  systematically  and  with  a  mutual 
understanding which ran down  the  receipts 
in a way  that  opened  the  senior  partner’s 
eyes quite suddenly.  At the  end of  a  year 
he was glad to ship his associates and go on 
alone.

How He  Collected the Bill.

From the New  England Grocer.

A good story is told of a well-known Bos­
ton  property  holder  who  has  for  a 
tenant in a down  town  building  a  lawyer 
somewhat noted for being  slow  in  paying 
debts.  One day, becoming very much exas­
perated, he said to tlie collector:

“Give me that bill. 

I’ll show you how to 

collect rents.”

He was absent about  three-quarters of an 
hour.  When he returned he  did  not  have 
much to say for a  few  moments,  and  then, 
going over to the collector’s  desk,  he  said, 
in a very confidential way,
.  “Just charge-----with §15.”

“ How!s that?” inquired the  collector. 
“ Well—I—well—that’s  all  right.  Mr.
-----was a little short to-day,  and  I let him
have that much.”

Close  Cutting.

Close cutting is an  evil  that  is  doing a 
great amount of harm to retail grocers.  Men 
are not supposed to engage in business merely 
for the pleasure which  this  business  gives 
them.  There is no sense or reason for sell­
ing sugar at cost.  An  exchange,  commen­
ting on the cutting  of  prices,  says:  »“Pur­
chases are seldom made because the price is 
low.  Especially is  this true  in  depressed 
times,  when any price is high for an  article 
that is not needed,  and when men  buy only 
because they  must  to  meet  requirements. 
Such limited buying is independent of price, 
and would result at any price. 
In  times of 
prosperity a cut may be possibly made with­
out entailing any further  effects,  and  may 
serve to work  off  a  surplus  stock;  but in 
times like the present it is  taken  as  an  ac­
knowledgment on the part of the seller that 
prices are too high,  and begets further  lack 
of confidence,  and exerts a permanent injur­
ious influence upon trade.  The  lowness of 
price is in every one’s mouth,  and  the  news 
of every concession  flies  on  the  wings  of 
lightening in all  directions.  Other  dealers 
and manufacturers meet  the  cut in self-de­
fense,  and another lower  level of  prices is 
established,  only to again recede at the news 
of the  next  cut.  The  demand  for  lower 
prices becomes chronic on the part of the pur­
chaser.  Public opinion is formed on a  low­
er estimate of values,  from which the recov­
ery is difficult.  It is therefore a serious thing 
to cut prices,  and  one  that  should  not be 
resorted to except under exceptional circum­
stances.  Men are prone to buy  on  an  ad­
vancing market.  They  are  especially dis­
posed to avoid a declining one,  and  the  cut 
weakens the  general  demand.  Values  us­
ually  stiffen  with  increased  demand,  and 
experience teaches that the converse  is  al­
ways true, that demand increases  as values 
grow firmer.”

The  Cigarette Nuisance.

Even cigar smokers are in many instances 
insufferably annoyed by the vile, cheap cigar­
ette.  A  correspondent  of  the  Brooklyn 
Eagle tell a little story illustrating this:

“Not long ago in a smoking compartment 
of a Pullman car,  a little  scene  occurred  in 
which the cigarette was, as usual,  the cause 
of the trouble.  There were four men smok­
ing cigars in the somewhat  confined  space 
of  the  compartment,  when  the  cigarette 
came in.  Attached to it was a thin young man 
who was still so far behind the fashion as to 
wear his hair banged. 
It  was  one  of  the 
twenty-for-ten-cents  cigarettes  of  a  cheap 
brand abundantly advertised.  The cigarette 
had not been there a minute  before  the  en­
joyment of every  smoker  in the  place  was 
thoroughly spoiled. An elderly man who was 
one of the original quartette took out his cigar 
case and offered the  cigarette  young  man a 
cigar.  The youth preferred his cigarette, he 
said.  Then the man put his cigar Case back 
in his pocket,  tossed the partially consumed 
cigar out of the window, and deliberately left 
the compartment.  The youth with the cigar­
ette was well-meaning enough, and he rushed 
after the retreating smoker with an apology, 
but the man with  the cigar-case  did  not re­
turn. He was quite pleasant about it, howev­
er, said he recognized the right of every man 
to smoke in a public  place,  but as  he  could 
not  himself stand cigarettes,  though he had 
smoked all his life,  he preferred to go to the 
forward end of the ear. 
I don’t think cigar­
ette  smokers  realize—I  know I never  did 
when  I  smoked  cigarettes—how  offensive 
the odor of  the  cheap  paper  abominations 
so extensively  sold  is  to  cigar  smokers. 
That the anti-cigarette  smoking  movement 
is  growing  cannot  be  doubted.  The signs 
prohibiting cigarette smoking in offices grow 
more numerous,  and,  after all, there may be 
a check to the custom after awhile. 
If good 
cigarettes  were  smoked,  it  would  be  bad 
enough ; as it  is,  the  nuisance  is  intoler­
able.” 

^ _____

He W as  Full.

From the Wall Street News.

A drummer who was  scouting  for  busi­
ness on the Arkansas shore of  the  Mississ­
ippi river struck a settlement  in  which the 
one store carried a small  line  of  almost ev­
erything.  The drummer had only boots and 
shoes,  and it was with  something  like  joy 
that he noticed the fact  that the dealer  had 
only two pairs  of  boots  and three or  four 
shoes lying around.  His joy was,  however, 
of  short  duration.  When  he  introduced 
himself the merchant  replied:

“I’d like to give you a lift,  but the fact is 
the only two men in this country  who wear 
boots were  buried  last  week,  and  there 
won’t be any sale on  shoes  until  we  git a 
new school teacher.”

“But don’t you want some negro  shoes?”
“Oh,  as to them we always depend on the 
wreck of a steamboat on the snags above.  I 
guess I’m all full.”

Lively Foreign Trade.

“Did  you  notice,”  said  the  young  mer­
chant to the old one on* the horse  car,  “that 
there has been a great  renewal of trade  be­
tween Russia and England lately?”

“No, no,  I hadn’t.  Let  me see  your pa­
per.  What kind of trade is it?  Does it ef­
fect our business?”

“Oh, no,  it  doesn’t  touch  our  line. 

It’s 
nothing but  some  unusually  large  exporta­
tions of taffy from Russia to England.”

NO. 90

How to Buy Shoes.

The price of a  pair  of  shoes  is  a  riddle 
when they  are  on  the  feet.  The  price  of 
other articles your neighbors  know,  analyz­
ing the cost of materials in your clothing as 
correctly as if they had  done  your  buying. 
The materials used in any piecemeal articles 
which can be made at home,  if  desired,  be­
come  more  familiar  than  other  materials 
which must always be bought in a  complete 
form,  such as a shoe. 
In buying a  dress or 
a suit of  clothes, for instance,  the  fabric is, 
perchance, bought at one  store,  the braid at 
another and the buttons at still another.  Or 
a bonnet frame from one store is trimmed with 
the  newest  shade  of  ribbon  from  another. 
But  shoes  are  not  bought  by  piecemeal. 
People buy them as they buy horses,  taking 
the dealer’s  word  for  them.  Ladies  who 
pride themselves that they can buy silk that 
will not grow  shinny,  calicoes  that  “will 
wash,” carpets that will not fade,  and “real 
lacé,” draw the line at the  product  of  the 
shoemaker.  An intelligent purchase of foot­
wear should  be  added  to  the  accomplish­
ments of the average buyer.

The great  point ‘to  be  sought  is  wear, 
whether a shoe is low priced or high priced. 
There are other points to examine, of course, 
but a shoe that does not wear well  does not 
meet the first requirements of  a shoe. 
It is 
bad enough to  “break in” a new  shoe  any­
way and a good  wearing  article  will  save 
the torture of a  new  pair  of  shoes  every 
time there is a new moon.  Ten or  twenty- 
five cents  make  a  great  difference  in  the 
kind and amount of leather that can be used 
by the manufacturer.  Twenty-five cents on 
a low priced grade of shoe will  substitute a 
goatskin upper for a sheep skin,  and a solid 
leather sole for one that is only partly leath­
er.  Fifty cents will  often  give a  dollar in 
wear.  A shoe should  never  be  bought  for 
its beauty of‘outline only, but for its wearing 
qualities as well. 
It is  not the  kid, pebble 
or straight goat figured finish that gives  the 
wear, but the quality of goatskin upon which 
the finish is made.  Buyers generally evince 
the same desire to  distinguish  a  sheepskin 
from a goatskin that they  evince to  distin­
guish cotton from woolen.

Men’s shoes  are  made  in  a  substantial 
manner and invariably recommended to  the 
purchaser for wearing properties.  Although 
made of heavy leather they are  sold  on the 
right principle,  and the true  principle upon 
which to buy  shoes  for  a  man,  woman or 
child.

An important consideration also is a good 
fit. 
It is almost  as  important  to  select a 
good-fitting  as  a  well-made  shoe.  An ill- 
fitting shoe gets out of  shape  easily,  and is 
constantly subjected to strain  where  undue 
pressure is not provided for.  There is noth­
ing so necessary to good,  solid  comfort as a 
perfect-fitting shoe. 
If it does not fit it is a 
nuisance.  The person who  wears a pinch­
ing shoe with the  expectation  that a small 
size looks smaller is  much  mistaken.  The 
foot will spread out in any kind of shoe, and 
the  size of the boot  becomes  far more no­
ticeable  iu  a  shoe  that  is  too  small  than 
when one of the  right  size  is  purchased. 
The best-made  shoe in the  world  will not 
stand the strain when a person wears a shoe 
too small for the  foot.  Half  the  shoes re­
turned to the  inspection  of  manufacturers 
are damaged by squeezing  a  large foot into 
a small shoe.  Shoes  should  not always  be 
bought by the size  and  width  mark.  The 
only safe way is to fit the  foot  and  let the 
size be what it may.  This is comparatively 
an easy matter nowadays,  as each year man- 
facturers study more and more the mechani­
cal  construction  of  lasts.  A  number  of 
widths are furnished by well-equipped man­
ufacturers, the measurements  being  graded 
even to an eighth of an inch.

Now,  there is no reason why a serviceable 
and  well-fitting  shoe  should  not  also  be 
handsome.  If a last has a correct heel meas­
ure,  and is full  at the  ball,  a shapely opera 
toe is as practical  as  any  other  style.  A 
square-toed sole is not  necessarily the most 
comfortable. 
In  fact, Philadelphia  is  the 
only locality where  there is any  great  de­
mand for square toes at  the  present  time. 
The present prevailing  styles  are  narrow 
toes,  opera  toes  and  the  common-sense. 
With proper  measurement  any one  of the 
fashionable styles  is practical  and  easy fit­
ting.  Extremely high heels are  less  worn 
than  formerly.  The  besj  manufacturers 
now aim to secure the  natural  pitch of  the 
foot.  On all qualities of goods  the style of 
heel is more sensible  than for  many  years 
past.  But,  really,  shoes can be produced so 
rapidly that every  cautious  buying  dealer 
will generally have the  correct  style.  The 
points for the consumer to consider are qual­
ity and fit.  A  handsome  shoe  can  “smile 
and smile and be a  villian”  just  like  any 
other villian.  People should  wear  service­
able shoes, buying for quality as well as for 
beauty.  The manufacturers make what the 
storekeepers buy,  and the storekeepers  will 
sell those goods that are called for.  A cheap 
article will never do thfe work of  a good ar­
ticle.  As a rule,  fifty  per  cent,  additional 
price, at the factory  will  give  one  hundred 
per cent,  in  wear to  the  customer.  With 
proper usage and occasional  repairs a  good 
pair of shoes should wear from the time the 
frost comes out of the ground imtil the time 
the frost goes into the ground.

The refusal of the Massachusetts Legisla­
ture to allow the Bell Telephone Co. to wa­
ter its stock $10,000,000  worth  reveals the 
fact that  its  assets  have  increased  from 
$10,000,000 to $21,000,000 in a single  year, 
besides paying an annual dividend of 15 per 
cent.,  and an  “operating account” which in­
cludes a> disposition of profits which  should 
be added  to  the  dividend.  For  financial 
despotism,  the Bell Telephone  Co.  deserves 
mention in the same breath with the  West­
ern  Union.

J.  B.  Olsen,  boot  and  shoe  dealers  at 

C.  C.  Sherman  succeeds  P.  L.  Carpenter 

in the drug business at Otter Lake.

C. L.  Taggett  succeeds  Taggett  Bros,  in 

the boot and shoe business at Caro.

H.  L.  Kendrick succeeds Asher Teachout 

in the drygoods business at St. Johns.

Phillips- & Spoon  succeed  Harrington  & 
Phillips in the grocery  business at Jackson.
Fletcher &  Co.,  boot  and  shoe  dealers  at 
Reed City,  have sold out to Chas. Hitchcock.
C.  O.  Cain is  moving  his  general  stock 
from Sand Lake  to  Sparta,  where  he  will 
engage in trade with S.  Bitely.

Steve Wood,  of hardware fame,  has  gone 
into the drug business at  Buchanan,  having 
purchased the effects of A.  W.  Severson.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and iknuiacturins Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY.  JUNE  10,  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Ohas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—W m. Sears.
Executive  Committee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one 
year;  L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two
Arbitration  Committee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W. 
Transportation  Committee—Samuel  Sears, 
Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur 
Manufacturing  Committee—Wm.  Cartwright, 
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­

Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman.
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
of October. 
ing of each month.

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Itean Dairymen’s Association.

Organized at  Grand Rapids,  February 25,  lS8o.
President—Milan Wiggins. Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac;  F.  C. 
Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz,  Davison 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City; 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdale;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage; 
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C. Nash, Hilliards; 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks-
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand 
Next  M e e t i n g —Third  Tuesday  i n   February, 
Membership Fee—$1 per year.
Official Organ—T h e   M i c h i g a n  T r a d e s m a n .

Rapids. 
1886.

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Post A., M.  C. T.  A.

Organized at  Graiid Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Executive  C o m m i t te e —President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. Hawkins.
Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh.
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
-Last Saturday  evening
Regular  Meetings—Last Sati 
each month.
Next  Meeting-Saturday  evening,  June 
at “The Tradesman” office.

Grand Rapids Post T.  P. A.

Organized at Grand Rapids, April 11, 1885.
President—Geo. F. Owen.
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay.
Secretary—Leo A. Caro.
Treasurer—James Fox.
Next Meeting-—Saturday evening, June 20, at 
“The Tradesman” office.

THE  PHARMACY  BILL.

The  Pharmacy  Law  is  now  an  aeeom-1 
plished fact, having  passed  both Houses  of 
the Legislature and received the approval of 
the Governor.  Much ignorance lias existed as 
to the purport of the measure, in consequence 
of which T he  T radesm an has procured  a 
certified copy of the bill as it finally  passed 
the  Legislature  and  hereby  presents  the 
same to its numerous readers.  Some of the 
provisions are wise and calculated to  do the 
drug trade good, while others may  possibly 
work to the detriment of the business.  Tak­
en as a whole, the law is a long step  in  the 
right direction and  it  behooves every drug­
gist in the State to give it his cordial  co-op­
eration.

Much now depends upon the character  of 
the  men selected  to  enforce  its  provisions 
regarding examinations and the distribution 
of permits to dispense dings.  The Board of 
Pharmacy  should  be composed of men who 
are well versed in aifairs pertaining to phar­
macy, coupled with a large amount of  plain 
common sense.  Muskegon  presents  an  ex­
cellent candidate in the person of  Jacob  Jes- 
son,  who is qualified in every respect to dis­
charge the duties devolving upon a  member 
of the Board.  Lansing and Detroit are each 
entitled  to representation  on  the Board  on 
account of the effective  work  done  by  the 
pharmacists of those cities,  in  securing  the 
passage of the bill; and it would not be sur­
prising if a fourth member hailed from Kal­
amazoo. 
'Hie  fifth  place on the board be­
longs to Grand Rapids,  and  The  Trades­
man lias no compunction in  presenting  for 
appointment the name  of  Frank  J.  Wurz­
burg,  President of the Grand  Rapids  Phar- 
macutical Society.  An active  druggist for 
nearly thirty years,  Mr.  Wurzburg  has  as­
sisted in the building up of a large business, 
and has always taken  an  interest  in  every 
movement looking toward  the  elevation  of 
the business of the druggist and  the profes­
sion of the pharmacist.  Thoroughly quali- 
ged to discharge the duties  incident  to  the 
position,  he would prove  an  efficient  mem­
ber  of  the  Board,  and  his  appointment 
would  do  much  to  allay  the  suspicion 
against the  law  which exists in  the  minds 
of hundreds  of  druggists.  The  Trades­
man is confident  that  Mr.  Wurzburg’s  ap­
pointment would receive  the  hearty appro­
val  of  every  druggist in  Grand  Rapids,  as 
well as scores of others in  various  parts of 
the State who  have  had  dealings with him 
in a business  way,  or  who  know  him  per­
sonally. 

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Every  breeze  from  the  Saginaws  brings 
The Tradesm an desires a correspondent 
confirmation of  the  report  that  the whole- 
in every city  and  town  in  Michigan,  and
will gladly pay for  all  news  of a business I sale grocerymen of the two cities  are  bend- 
nature. Addressed envelopes and full instrue- j ing every exertion to put themselves in con-
dition to meet the Grand Rapids ball tossers 
tions  will  be  furnished  on  application. 
sometime during the next two months.  As 
Items regarding changes in firms,  new firms 
yet,  the Grand Rapids  jobbers  have  taken 
or  corporations, changes in  locations,  etc., 
no steps toward  a  better  understanding  of 
are  respectfully solicited for publication.
C.  Culhane has just complete a job of 12,-
the national game; but on  the  first  intima­
tion  that  the  Saginaw  grocerymen  intend j  000,000 feet of logs,  in  Ogemaw county,  for 
favoring  Grand  Rapids  with  a  visit,  they j the Torrent & Arms Lumber Co., at Muske- 
will hie themselves  away  to  the  ball  park ! gon.  He banked the  logs in Mud lake, and

The Warren Featherbone  Co.,  of  Three 
Oaks,  is  doing a  driving  business,  and  ar­
rangements are about  completed for the  re­
moval of the whip factory  of  Clark &  Co., 
of Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  to  that  place.  The, two 
companies will be distinct,  but closely asso­
ciated.  Each has $100,000 capital stock.

mLeuven  failure  are 
>,751.38 liabilities.  If 
nest  in  his  protesta-

The assets in the  V 
$20,548.05, against $3 
Mr. Van Leuven is lie

tions against fraudulent  intentions,  let  him 
put his wife’s secured claim  for  $10,000  on 
the  same  basis  as the unsecured creditors. 
The  more  the  matter  is  agitated,  and  the 
more  statements  the  assignor  makes,  the 
more crooked the failure appears.

and  waste  the  warm  afternoons of  a fort­
night in attempts to imitate the  movements 
of professional base ball artists.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

F. J. Barrett succeeds  R.  Roscoe  in  gen­

eral trade at Clyde.

D. &.  G. J.  Nissely, boot and shoe dealers 

at Saline,  have dissolved.

The retirement of the  Blue Line from the 
“fast  freight”  business  will  afford  T he 
Tradesm an  an  opportunity  to  present  a
full history of the  rise  and  decline  of  the j  Co.’s grocery stock at  Ionia, 
fast  freight  line  business  in  next  week’s
The article is being prepared under j  have added a line of crockery.
paper.
the supervision of one of the  foremost  rail­
road  men  in  the  country,  who  has  been 
familiar with the business since  its infancy.

Chase,  have removed to Cadillac.

W.  F. Bush has bought  W.  H.  Thayer &

Lang & Walker,  grocers  at  Elk  Rapids, 

Henry Diittman,  formerly  engaged in the 
boot and shoe  business  at  Reed  City, has 
bought  the boot and  shoe stock  of Alexan­
der Hall,  at Mt.  Pleasant.

H.  Lambertson & Co.,  general  dealers at 
Rochester,  have  dissolved.  Hiram  Lam­
bertson continues in  the  drug  and  grocery 
business,  and  Mrs. Mary  Lambertson  suc­
ceeds in the dry goods business.

A few months ago Grand Rapids was vis­
ited by  an  itinerant  correspondent  of  the 
D. J.  & H.  C.  Burleigh  have  purchased
American Manufacturer, of Pittsburg,  and ! ^ie hardware stock  at  Adrian  belonging to 
the result was a couple  of  columns  of  the 
the C. I. Witmore estate,  and  will  continue 
sorriest slush which ever burdened  the  col- j 
the business at the old stand.
Judging  by j 
urns of a respectable journal. 
the taffy dealt out by this penny-a-liner,  the 
natural  conclusion  would  be  that  Grand j 
Rapids was the only city  of  importance  in j 
this country and that everything needed  for ! 
the  comfort  and  convenience  of  mankind 
could be picked up in the streets or  invoked 
from the clouds. Since then,the same scribbler 
has pounced  down on  Traverse City,  Kala­
mazoo, Jackson,  Lansing  and  other  points 
in the State,  and  lo ! the  mantle  of  Grand
Ranids has descended upon those more favor- 
iwipm» luio 
ed communities.  In each and every case the 
young man has been “astonished at the won- | 
derful resources of the  place,”  etc.,  and  his j 
letters have teemed with extravagant phrases 
and transparent exaggerations  which  never 
attract  the  attention  of  practical  business 
men,  but rather seek to bring the  places  so 
referred to into disrepute.  Advertising is a 
science, and requires just as much discretion 
as banking or manufacturing; and all money 
paid for blatant flattery and senseless repre- 
titious might just as well be cast to the four 
winds of heaven.

Ovid Union:  P.  D.  Grommon,  who  has 
been engaged in the drug trade here  for  the
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| past three or four years has sold his stock to
a gentleman named Deyo,  from  McBrides, 
who will take possession as  soon  as  an  in­
voice can be taken.

J.  E.  McCollum,  clothing  dealer  at  Clin­
ton,  has  made  a  general assignment to C. 
H.  Fisk,  of Detroit,  in trust for the the ben­
efit of his creditors.  There are no preferences 
and no secured  debts.  Liabilities,  $4,300; 
assets about the same.

J. M.  McBride succeeds McBride Bros,  in 

the manufacture of carriages at Dundee.

MANUFACTUEING  MATTERS.

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AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Rindge, Bertsch & Co. received seven car­

loads of rubber goods last week.

Patehin &  Abbott,  small  lumber  dealers, 
have dissolved partnership and retired  from 
business.

J.  M.  Peterson  has  engaged  in 
eery  business  at  Coopersville. 
Meigs & Co.  furnished the stock.

the  gro- 
Arthur

J. P. Moore  & Co.  have  engaged  in  the 
grocery business o# the corner of Spring and 
Oakes streets.  Cody,  Ball & Co.  furnished 
the stock.

The Grand Rapids  Refrigerator  Co.  has 
just put on the market a  grocer’s  refrigera­
tor, made in two sizes,  which is  undoubted­
ly destined to meet with a large side.

C.  C.  Bunting  and  D.  B.  Shedd  have 
formed a copartnership under the firm name 
of Bunting  &  Shedd,  and  will  shortly  en­
gage in the produce commission business in 
the new Gilbert block on Ottawa street.
j  Among the special premiums  to be  offer- 
| ed at the coming  fair,  Brown,  Hall  & Co.
I offer three prizes—blankets worth  $11,  $8 
and $6, respectively—for the best teams with 
| loaded wagons used for delivering goods for 
Grand Rapids wholesale houses.

E.  Fallas has pickled 15,050 dozen of eggs 
so far this season,  and expects to put  down 
as  many  more  before  the  advent  of  cold 
j  weather.  He does not anticipate much of a 
change in the market for some time to come, 
j  as the  immediate  markets  are  overstocked 
| with pickled stock.  Mr. Fallas has also en- 
! gaged in the manufacture of egg crates.
j  Ex-Mayor Belknap’s  mission  during his 
| recent trip through the South  was to  ascer- 
i tain the most desirable point at which to es­
tablish a Southern depot for the products of 
his factory.  He has about  concluded to lo-
cate the branch at  Atlanta,  as  that  city 
the commercial center of four  or five states, 
and the he adquarters of  important  lumber­
ing operations in all portions  of  the South.
“We use  very  few  prison-made  goods,” 
said a leading boot and shoe  jobber the oth­
er day. 
“In fact,  I never saw a shoe made 
by convict labor which would compete  with 
one made by free labor.  Prison goods don’t 
seem to have any style about  them,  and  are 
seldom put together so as  to look attractive. 
They wear well,  for  all  I  know,  but  the 
appearance of a shoe  is  everything  nowa­
days.  We have several cases of prison-made 
shoes in stock, but they are  ‘stayers,’ and  I 
hardly think we shall ever purchase another 
lot.”

The  Ann  Arbor  Lock  Spring  Gear  Co. 
has begun the erection of a factory  at  Ann 
Arbor.

Makers of milling  machinery  in  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  have found purchasers  in Australian 
towns.

The Western Lumber Co.,  of Manistique, 
has  just put in operation a  new  mill,  com­
menced two years ago.

Many of the factories at Battle Creek Have 
lately  increased  their  force,  and some  are 
working twelve hours a day.

Mecosta  Sentinel:  Sherman  &  Baleom 
have received their mill  machinery and will 
soon have the same in running order.

Manton  Tribune:  E.  W.  Closson  has 
commenced shipping his  mill  machinery to 
Hobart,swhere he has a large job under con­
tract.

An Otsego correspondent  writes:  N.  W. 
Mills has purchased Geo. B. Norton’s inter­
est in the saw mill at Bloomingdale,  and re­
port says he will push things.

The  Union  Iron  Co.,  of  Detroit,  has a 
number of coal  kilns at Sears,  and between 
3,000 and 4,000 cords of  wood  with  which 
to begin operations for the season.

Wm.  McAdie & Co. have rented the Mich­
igan Iron  Works,  at  Cadillac,  and  are  al­
ready in possession.  They  will  manufac­
ture engines and all kinds  of  mill  machin­
ery.

The Thayer Lumber Co.  is  reported to be 
piling a large share of its cut at  Muskegon. 
A new side track has  been  put  in  at  the 
yard,  which facilitates the handling of stock. 
About twelve carloads  are  daily  run  from 
the mill to the yard.

M.  B.  Farrin & Co.’s mill hands  at South 
| Boardman have struck for higher wages and 
prompt payments. 
It  is  reported  that the 
men complain of being  kept  out  of  their 
wages—which  are 
three 
months at a  time,  the  firm  giving  time or­
ders.

low—two  and 

Frankfort Express:  Messrs.  Wilson  and 
Pierce of Bay City,  representing the Wilson
j js , Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of hoops,
are in town looking up  a  location  for  the 
plant where timber  is  plenty and  shipping 
facilities  good.  They  employ  thifty  men 
the year around.

David Ward & Son  have  made  arrange­
ments with  Stokoe & Nelson,  at  Manistee, 
to saw 6,000,000  feet  of  logs  this  season. 
They will begin shipping  logs  from Manis­
tee to East Saginaw by rail in  July.  After 
that contract is completed their  sawing will 
be done at Manistee.

The Lenliardt Engine Co.  is the  name  of 
a new corporation lately formed at  Detroit, 
with a capital stock of $25,000.  The stock­
holders are Albert E.  Peppers,  George Len- 
liardt,  Samuel G. Kinney, A. C. Varney and 
James  W.  McCulloch.  The company  will 
manufacture a patent ptunp.

clrove  them  out  into  the  Muskegon  on 
Backus creek eighteen  miles.  Culhane has 
put in over 70,000,000  feet  of  logs for the 
same concern within the pqst five years.

Northwestern Lumberman:  Henry Pick- 
ford,  of  Pickford,  Chippewa  county,  pro­
poses to hire Italians to ran his  mill at that 
place.  The inhabitants  say  that  after the 
dagos get to work there will be several fun­
erals,  since if the  old hands at  the business 
cannot avoid  the  fascinations  of the saws, 
but frequently get  hurt  by them,  the unac­
customed  Italians  will  get  chewed  all  to 
pieces  as  soon  as  they  begin  to  monkey 
with the buzzers.

Watervliet  Record:  The  Three  Oaks 
featherbone factory is preparing  to  branch 
out  in  the  form  of  a  whip  factory,  said 
branch to be located in Three  Oaks or some 
other suitable place.  Michigan  City wants 
it,  and  Watervliet  stands  just  as  good a 
chance to secure it as any other town.  Niles 
went to the trouble of  sending  four of  her 
most influential business men to Three Oaks 
to persuade the proprietor of  the  factory to 
consider and accept  the inducements  offer­
ed.

H.  C.  Thurber,  of  Marquette,  and  R. K. 
Hawley,  of Cleveland, cut  last  winter  13,- 
000,000 feet of logs on the Bad river, Upper 
Peninsula,  which will  be  rafted  to  Cleve­
land.  They are  about  to  build  a  logging 
road,  thirteen miles  long,  over  which  the 
logs will be hauled to  the  lake.  They will 
use two locomotives and 60 cars.  The lands 
from which the logs were cut were formerly 
owned by Mr. Thurber,  a  half  interest  in 
which was sold by him to Mr. Hawley.  The 
timber is estimated at 200,000,000 feet.

STRAY  FACTS.

Fred Hayes succeeds J.  W.  Beatty  in  the 
confectionery  and  stationery  business  at 
Midland.

Logs to the amount of 50,000,000  feet are 
to be transported  by railroad from Baldwin 
to Whitehall.

The lumber saved from  the  wreck of the 
Wells,  on shore of Beaver  Island,  was late­
ly loaded into the barge  Fulton  and  towed 
to Manistique.

T.  D.  Stimson has a new steambarge call­
ed the Robert Holland,  which is running be­
tween Muskegon  and  South Chicago in the 
lumber trade.

Jackson merchants say that  cheap  excur­
sions  to  Detroit  work  injury  to  their busi­
ness,  and they will discourage  them  as  far 
as they are able.

Hastings  Banner:  Ackerson  &  Hayes 
have put down in their packling vats 60,000 
dozens of eggs, which reprepresents  $6,000 
in clean cash.  This amount  was  gathered 
in less than seven weeks.

The Cheboygan Lumber Co.,  of  Cheboy­
gan,  proposes to that city to  sink a test salt 
well  there at an expenditure of $30,000,  the 
city to reimburse it if the  well  is not a suc­
cess; if it is a success, the  company will ask 
no reimbursement.

The Hopkins Manufacturing  Co.  intends 
to harvest a crop of 3,000 cords  of  hemlock 
bark in the vicinity of Manistee this season, 
and  will  employ fifty  men  at Bear lake in 
the industry, paying $1.50 a day.

Detroit News:  The  business  of the  De­
troit Soap Co.  (Digby V. Bell and Sam Post) 
has  grown  to  such  an  extent  that a new 
three-story addition,  40x80 feet,  is  now  be­
ing built at the factory,  corner  of  Twenty- 
fifth street and the Dix road.

The spring meeting of the  Grand  Rapids 
Driving Park  Association,  which  will  be 
held on June 23 and the  three  days follow­
ing,  promises a rich treat for  horsemen and 
all persons  interested  in  equine  speeding. 
The reduction of the entry fee to 5 per cent, 
of the purse is a comparatively new  feature 
in  horse  meetings,  and  has  resulted  in 
doubling the usual  number of the entries.

Death of W . J.  Andre  of  Luther.

F. J.  Fletcher,  the Luther jeweler, writes 
T he  Tradesm an as follows:  W.  J. Andre 
died here on the  1st,  aged  33  years.  Mr. 
Andre came to Luther in the spring of  1882 
and  opened  a  furniture  store  under  the 
name of Perrin & Andre,  his  partner  being 
Prof. A.  B.  Perrin, of  Reed  City. 
In  the 
fall of that year they closed out the business 
and Mr. Andre,  after  clerking  for  W.  B. 
Pool a short time, bought out E. Treadgold’s 
interest in the firm  of  Treadgold & Burch, 
and the firm  was  called  Burch  &  Andre. 
Last December Mr.  Burch died and in April 
Mr.  Andre bought  Mrs.  Burch’s  share,  and 
he carried on the  business  until  ill  health 
compelled him to give up and he sold out to 
E.  G.  Johnson.  Mr.  Andre was one of  the 
most respected business men in Luther, and 
and his death is a severe  blow  to  the  vil­
lage. 
In every respect he was a noble, hon­
est, upright,  Christian young  man,  respect­
ed and honored by all. 

. 

;
G.  C.  F eetciier.

Purely Personal.

G.  F.  Cole of the Marshall  Shirt Factory, 

is in town for a day or two.

John  York,  of  the  firm  of  York  Bros., 
grocers at Bellevue,  will pay Grand  Rapids 
a visit  this week.

Jas.  D. Barner,  State  agent  for the  Hall 
type writer,  has  been  appointed  Michigan 
agent for the Skinner cash transmitter, man­
ufactured at Littleton,  N.  H.

Geo.  B.  Martindale,  the  Cross  Village 
hardware dealer,  has returned home  after a 
three weeks’ stay in  Grand  Rapids,  carry­
ing with him vouchers for  $7,000,  his share 
in his father’s estate.  He has  lately moved 
into the new Bovee & Kelsey  block,  having 
now a store 22x70 feet in dimensions.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Greg.  Luce  succeeds  Jas.  E.  Ireland  as 

traveling agent for Hawkins & Perry.

C. E.  Cones,  S.  W.  Venable  &  Co.’s 
Michigan representative,  put  in  Sunday at 
this market.

Jas. T.  Avery,  with  Jennings  &  Smith, 
is spending three weeks  among  the  Upper 
Peninsula trade.

J.  A.  Poor,  representing  Dwinell,  Hay­
ward  &  Co.,  of  Boston,  called on the job­
bers here last week.

The report that every traveling man must 
carry a bottle in his grip sack on the Fourth 
is without foundation.

The veteran Crook will walk  in  the  pro­
cession July 4,  carrying his old  sample box. 
He will also wear his big shoes.

It is  Will  J.  Worden—not  Morley,  as 
stated last week—who is paying  Ludington 
a regular Sunday visit now-a-days.

Phil.  Gaubatz—otherwise  known 

as 
“Cigar Box”—is hovering along the  North­
ern Michigan lake shore this week.

A.  D.  Baker will  spend  the  Fourth  at 
Lockport,  N.  Y.  N.  B.— Mr.  Baker's moth­
er and girl No.  21  live  at  Lockport.

F. M.  Keats,  representing F.  F.  Adams & 
Co.,  spent  Sunday  in  Grand  Rapids, and 
left Monday for a trip through  the  remain­
der of the State.

D.  S.  Haugh, with Cody, Ball & Co.,  left 
Monday for a two  weeks’  trip  through  the 
Upper  Peninsula,  his  initial  visit  to  the 
trade of that region.

C. M.  Kendall,  B.  J.  Johnson  &  Co.’s 
Michigan representative,  is in town.  He is 
presenting every  purchaser  of  twenty-five 
boxes of soap with a  “dimeand  pin.”

Fred.  Selleck,  with the  American  Eagle 
Tobacco Co.,  has  concluded  not  to  remove 
to this city*,  as his territory has been length­
ened out so as  to  include  several  Eastern 
states.

In reply to an inquiry, The  Tradesm an 
is authorized to  state  that A.  D.  Baker has 
replaced the hinges  which  he  and  another 
person recently  broke off a  certain  gate at 
Traverse City.

M.  M.  Mallory,  with Arthur, Meigs & Co., 
is  jubilant over the  receipt of  a  handsome 
Elgin gold  watch,  as  a  reward  for  selling 
140 butts of plug tobacco for the  P.  J.  Sorg 
Co.,  of Middletown,  Ohio.

T.  P.  S.  Hampson  returned  from  the 
West  Saturday,  and  left  yesterday  for  a 
trip through the Huron  Lake shore and the 
Upper Peninsula.  He will return to  spend 
the Fourth with his family and  march with 
the boys.

Michigan  Journal:  T he  Tradesm an 
says there  are  356  “knights  of  the  grip 
sack”—traveling salesmen-—in  this city and 
that  they will  probably  make  a  marked 
demonstration in the procession on  the glor­
ious  “Fourth.”  Chalk it down.

By special arrangement, Geo.  Owen  will 
appear in  the  procession  July  4  with  his 
trained  dogs,  including  the  world-famous 
canine  which  was  shown  in  last  week’s 
Tradesm an.  The  marvelous  tricks  per­
formed by these dogs  are  worth  coming  a 
hundred miles to see.

A match game  of  base ball  between  the 
traveling men of this city and Detroit is now 
on the tapis.  The Detroit  boys  are  under­
stood to be hankering for an encounter with 
the Valley City grip carriers,  and if  such is
the  case,  they  can  be  accommodated  by 
sending a challenge to this office.

in 

the  dog  business.  His 

C.  B.  Lamb,  the  Plainwell  traveler,  has 
followed in Geo.  Owen’s  footsteps  and  en- ! 
gaged 
lat-1 
is  a  brown  water  span­
est  purchase 
iel,  which  was 
from 
France,  at  a  cost  of $225.  Other foreign 
purchases are on the way, and  before  many 
more months  have  elapsed  Mr.  Lamb  will j 
have one of the finest kennels in  the  coun­
try.

imported  direct 

All  Grand  Rapids  traveling  men,  irre­
spective of organization  or  previous  condi­
tion of servitude, are  respectfully invited to 
meet at The  Tradesm an  office  Saturday 
evening,  June 13,  to  make  the  necessary 
preliminary  arrangements  .for  a  traveling 
men’s picnic,  to be  held in  July or August. 
Every traveling man is  cordially  invited to 
co-operate in the  undertaking,  to  the  end 
that the second annual  picnic  may be  even 
more successful than the first.

leave 

Acting under the instructions of a consid­
erable  number  of  the  traveling  fraternity, 
the editor of The T radesm an appeared be­
fore the Fourth of July committee at a recent 
meeting,  and stated that  the  Grand  Rapids 
commercial tourists would like  to  march in 
a body in the procession on the Fourth,  pro­
viding  they  were  extended  an  invitation. 
The proposition  was  entertained  very  cor­
dially by  the  committee,  and  a  resolution 
was unanimously adapted, inviting the Hav­
ing men to make their profession  a  feature 
of the procession.  All who  are  willing  to 
join in the  demonstation  are  cordially  re­
quested  to 
their  names  at  The 
T radesm an office,  or send them in by pos­
tal card,  in order that the number who  will 
march may be definitely determined.  About 
fifty of the boys have  already  signified their 
intention  of being  present on the occasion, 
and it is hoped that fully 150 of the 356 travel- 
men who make  Grand  Rapids  their  home, 
will grace  the  procession  with  their  pres­
ence.  Application has  been  made  to  the 
committee to  assign  the  St. Johns  female 
band to the head  of  the  column,  and  it  is 
expected that  the  request  will  be  granted. 
Every profession  and  trade  will  be  repre­
sented in the procession on the  Fourth,  and 
the occasion is an excellent  opportunity for 
the  traveling  men  to  show  their  strength 
and increase  the  respect  for  their  calling 
that already exists in this community.

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:

Maueelona.

Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
F. H.  Holbrook, Muskegon.
David Munro, Edgerton.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
C. H. Adams,  Otsego.
W. H. Haney, Big Rapids.
Jno. N. Broadfoot, Traverse City.
S. E. Slade, Stanton.
Chas. H. Loomis,  Sparta.
Adam Wagner, Eastmanville.
C. L. Howard, Clarksville.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
D. C. Pelton. Nirvana.
W. J. Woodruff, Copley.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
W.  H.  Thompson,  Maneelona  Handle  Co., 
J. N. Covert, Carleton Center.
Jas. R. Dibble, Dibble Bros.,  Salem.
Jacob Baar. Grand Haven.
Jos. H. Spires, Leroy.
O. VanDyke. North Holland.
B. Volmari, Filmore Center.
Mrs. G. Miller, Lakeside.
A. P.  Hulbert, Lisbon.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
A. L.  Burnett & Co., Lisbon.
Miss Frank Rosewarm, Newaygo.
C. S. Keefer, Dutton.
John Stephonfleld, Middleville.
J. M. Reid, Grattan.
A. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
Wm. McMullen, Wood  Lake.
Thos. Sourby, Rockford.
J. Omler, Wright.
Bert Tinkler, Hastings.
S. Bitely, Pierson.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
C. Stocking,  Grattan.
T, J. Sheridan & Co., Lockwood.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
W. S. Root,  Tallmadge.
I  Jas. Barnes, Austerlitz.
|  W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
!  B. M. Denison, East Paris.
S. Cooper, Corinth.
!  M. J. Howard, Englishville.
T. B. Haines, Cedar  Springs.
Wm. VerMeulen, Beaver Dam.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
Thos. Smedley, Smedley Bros., Bauer.
A. M. Church. Sparta.
M. B. Nash,  Sparta.
C. Bergin, Lowell.

Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.

I  Cory Bros., Millbrook.
|  Geo. B. Martindale, Cross Village.

J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
Joshua Colby, Colby & Co.,  Rockford.  m  
Mark Smith, with G. F. Cutler & Co., Morley. 
Nelson Culver, Bailey.
Mr. Barker, Barker & Lehneu, Pierson.
M. M. Robson, Berlin.
S. T. McLellan,  Denison.
Geo. A. Sage. Rockford.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
Mr. Zunder, Zunder Bros., Bangor.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
C. Cole, Cole & Chaple, Ada.
A. D. Martin, Sand Lake.
L. E. Paige; Paige  & Anderson,  Sparta.
Dr. H. S. Baron, Forest Grove.
W. B. Wilson, Muskegon.
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley P. O.
R. North, Ashland.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
C. H. Adams,  Otsego.
John Otis & Co.,  Maneelona.
Geo. P.  Stark, Cascade.
Geo. W. Bevins, Tustin.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
.T. H. Beamer, J. H. Beamer & Co.,  Hastings. 
Ed. Roys, Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
C. E. Kcon, C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon. 
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.

Opening of the  Wool  Season—Australian 

Competition.

lip of Michigan is about 11,000,-

The total 
000 pounds.

Perkins & Hess bought 225,000 pounds of 
wool last year,  and intend buying  about the 
same amount the present season.

“The highest point wool ever  touched  in 
my remembrance was in  1863,”  said  Will. 
Lamoreaux the other day. 
“In that year I 
saw the staple go up to $1.04 per pound, and 
one fleece I remember netted the seller  $17. 
The price went down a  few  weeks later  to 
84 cents, and more than one wool buyer  was 
rained by the  decline.”

W.  T.  Lamoreaux  had  eleven  buyers  in 
the  field  last  year  and  handled  650,000 
pounds of wool.  He  expects to handle an 
even million pounds this season,  having en­
gaged fourteen buyers,  located at the follow­
ing named places: Owosso,  Ovid,  St.  Johns, 
Fowler,  Ionia,  Lowell,  Portland,  Grand 
Ledge,  Eaton  Rapids,  Charlotte,  Yermont- 
ville, Nashville, Allegan and Grand Rapids.
One of the most  potent  causes of  the de­
pression  in the wool market is  the  growing 
| importance of the Australian product, which 
| was hardly felt  in  the markets of the world 
j  a  few  years  ago,  but which now forms the 
most important article of Australian exports.
| Besides the quantity retained for home manu- 
I facture Australia exported last year 400,785,- 
449 pounds of the staple.  Late advices are to 
the effect that  the  clip  this  season is fully 
15 per cent,  larger than last year.

Small lots of wool are beginning to  come 
in quite freely,  and the prospects are  excel­
lent for a short and spirited season.  Prices 
will range from four to six cents lower than 
last season,  but the experience of those who 
held last year’s clip over  was  so  disastrous 
that all of this season’s clip will probably be 
marketed within the next two months. Heavy 
Eastern  handlers  of the staple  inform  both 
their own agents and  parties  who do a job­
bing business in  the  West  that  even  the 
present low price is in some degree specula­
tive,  as the present  demand  East  is  not at 
all active.  A change in price here is depen­
dent  upon  a  change  in  the  demand  East. 
The latter  bids  fair  to  increase  soon,  but 
only in a slight degree.

Furniture Facts.

Jonathan G. Wait, furniture manufacturer 
at Sturgis,  is succeeded  by  the  Wait Furni­
ture Co.

C.  S.  Black,  a former furniture  manufac­
turer of Buchanan,  is having his  large  fur­
niture wagon fixed up in  “palace  car” style 
preparatory to taking  a  trip  overland  into 
the “great west.”

Harrison,  Ilavemeyer  &  Co.,  of  Phil­
adelphia,  who" obtained judgment against  I. 
E.  Messmore for $1,465 have garnisheed Mrs. 
Messmore for  that  amount,  on  the  ground 
that the assignment of the  book-accounts at 
the time of the Messmore failure was fraud­
ulent.
The regular monthly meeting of the Grand 
Rapids Pharmaceutical  Society,  which  was 
to  have  been  held  at  T he  T radesm an 
office 
last  Thursday  evening,  was  post­
poned until Tuesday evening,  this week,  on 
account  of  the  storm  prevailing  at  the 
time.

The  suit  brought  by  Lindauer  Bros.  & 
Co.  agaiust Gray, Burt & Kingman, was de­
cided against the  plaintiff.

The Ann  Arbor  Courier  refers  to  The 
Tradesm an as  “that  thoroughly  success­
ful and model commercial journal.”

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Michigan  State  Phannacenticai  Association.

O F FIC E R S .

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Rapids. 

amazoo. 

President—Geo. W. Cron ter. Charlevoix.
First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  Kal­
Second V i c e - P r e s i d e n t —B.  D.  N o r t h r u p ,   L a n -
T h i n f  V i c e - P r e s i d e n t —F r a n k   Wurzburg-,  Gr’d 
Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
Treasurer—Win. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—H.  J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  F.  W. 
Fincher. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday. 
October 13,1885.

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Grand Rapids  Phannacenticai  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  P.  Bige­
_
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,  W m .H . 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White,
Wm. L. White. 
„   _
Committee oh Pharmacy—Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
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Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchild, 
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month.
Annual  Meetings-First  Thursday evening in 
November.
Next  Meeting—Thursday  evening,  July 
at ’‘The Tradesman” office.

_ 
_   ,, 

TH E  PHARMACY  LAW.

Full Text of the Measure  as  it  Passed  the 

Legislature.

Section 1.  The People  of  the  State of 
Michigan enact,  That the Governor with the 
advice and consent of the Senate shall, with­
in thirty days after  the passage of  this act, 
appoint  five  persons,  and  annually  there­
after  one  person,  from among  such compe­
tent pharmacists in  the  State  as  have  had 
ten  years’  practical  experience  in  dispen­
sing physicians' prescriptions who shall con­
stitute  the  Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy. 
The terms of office of said five persons shall 
be so arranged that the term of one shall ex­
pire on the 31st day of  December  of  each 
year,  and all appointments made  thereafter 
shall be for  the term  of five years.

Sec.  2.  The said board shall within thir­
ty days after its appointment,  meet  and or­
ganize by  the  election  of  a  president  and 
secretary,  from its own members vrho  shall 
be elected  for  the  term  of  one  year,  and 
shall perform the duties  prescribed  by  the 
board. 
It shall be the duty of the  board to 
examine  all  applications  for  registration 
submitted in  proper  form; to  grant  certifi­
cates of registration to such  persons as may 
be entitled to the same under the provisions 
of this act: to investigate complaints  and to 
cause the prosecution of all  persons  violat­
ing its provisions; to report  annually to the 
Governor, and to the Michigan  Pharmaceu­
tical Association upon the condition of phar­
macy in the State,  which  said  report  shall 
also furnish a record of  the  proceedings  of 
the said board for the year, and also the names 
of all pharmacists duly registered under this 
act; the board shall  hold  meetings  for  the 
examination of applicants  for  registration, ! 
and the transaction  for such other  business 
as shall pertain to its  duties,  at  least  once 
in four months; said meetings to be held  on 
the first Tuesdays  of  March, July and Nov­
ember  of  each  year;  shall  make  by­
laws 
its 
duties  under  this  act,  and  shall  keep  a 
book  of  registration  in  which  shall  be 
entered  the  names  and  places  of  bus­
iness  of  all  persons  registered  under  this 
act, which book shall also specify such facts 
as said persons  shall claim to jusify their reg­
istration.  The  records  of  said  board,  or  a 
copy of any part  thereof,  certified  by  the 
secretary to be a true copy,  attested  by the 
seal of the board,  shall be accepted as  com­
petent evidence in all courts  of  the  State. 
Three members of said  board  shall  consti­
tute a quorum.

the  proper  fulfillment  of 

for 

Sec.  3.  The secretary of  the  board  and 
the treasurer thereof,  if such separate  office 
be  created,  shall  receive  a  salary,  which 
shall be fixed by the board;  they  shall  also 
receive the amount  of  their  traveling  and 
other expenses incurred in the  performance 
of their official duties.  The other  members 
shall receive the sum  of  three  dollars  for 
each day actually engaged  in  this  service, 
and all legitimate  and  necessary  expenses 
incurred in the performance of  their official 
duties.  Said salaries per diem and expenses, 
shall  be paid from the  fees  received  under 
the provisions of  this  act.  All  moneys re­
ceived in excess of said per diem allowance, 
and other expenses above provided for, shall 
be paid into the State treasury at the end of 
each  year,  and  as  much  thereof as shall be 
necessary  to  meet  the  current  expenses  of 
said  board  shall  be  subject  to  the  order 
thereof,  if in any  year  the  receipts  of  said 
board  shall  not  be  equal 
its  ex-’ 
penses  The  board  shall  make  an  annul 
report  and  render  an  account to  the Board 
of  State  Auditors  and  to  the  Michigan 
Pharmaceutical  Association,  of  all moneys 
received  and  disbursed  by  it  pursuant  to 
this act.

to 

Sec.  4.  Every person who  shall,  within 
three months after this act takes effect, for­
ward to the Board of Pharmacy satisfactory 
proof supported by his affidavit, that he was 
engaged in  the  business  of  a  dispensing 
pharmacists on liis owrn account in this State 
at the time this act takes effect,  in  the pre­
paration of physicians’ prescriptions,  or that 
at such time he had been employed or engag­
ed three years or more  as  a  pharmacist  in 
the  compounding  of  physicians’  prescrip­
tions,  and was at said time  so  employed in 
this State,  shall  upon  the  payment  to  the 
board of a fee of two dollars,  be granted the 
certificate of a registered pharmacist:  Pro­
vided,  That in case of failuae  or  neglect to

register as herein provided, then  such  per­
son shall,  in order to be  registered,  comply 
with the requirements provided for registra­
tion as a licentiate in pharmacy  hereinafter 
described.

Sec.  5.  No person other than a licentiate 
in pharmacy shall be entitled to registration 
as a pharmacist  except  as  provided  for  in 
section four.  Licentiates in pharmacy shall 
be  such  persons,  not  less  than  eighteen 
years of age,  who  shall have passed a satis­
factory examination touching  their  compe­
tency before the board of pharmacy.  Every 
such person shall,  before an  examination is 
granted,  furnish  satisfactory  evidence  that 
he is of temperate habits and pay to the board 
a fee  of  three  dollars.  Provided,  That in 
case of the failure of any applicant to pass a 
satisfactory  examination,  the  money  shall 
be held to his credit for a  second  examina­
tion at any  time within one year.  The said 
board  may  grant certificates of  registration 
without  further  examination  to  the  licen­
tiates  of  such  other boards of pharmacy  as 
it may deemproper upon a payment of a fee 
of  two dollars.

Sec.  6.  The said board may grant, under 
such rules and regulations as it  may  deem 
proper at a fee not exceeding one dollar, the 
certificate of  registered  assistant,  to  clerks 
or assistants  in  pharmacy,  not  less  than 
eighteen years of age,  who at  the  time this 
act takes effect shall be engaged in such ser­
vice in this State,  and have  been  employed 
or engaged two years or more  in  the  prac­
tice of pharmacy,  but such  certificates shall 
not entitle the holder to engage in such bus­
iness on his own account,  or to take  charge 
of or act as manager of a  pharmacy or drug 
store.

Sec.  7.  Every registered  pharmacist, or 
registered assistant,  who desires to continue 
the practice of his profession,  shall  annual­
ly,  after  the expiration  of  the first  year 
of  his  registration,  during  the  time  he 
shall continue in such practice,  on such date 
as the board  of  pharmacy may  determine, 
pay to the said  board  a  registration  fee to 
be fixed by the  board, but  which  shall  not 
exceed one dollar  for a  pharmacist,  or fifty 
cents for an assistant,  for which he shall re­
ceive a renewal of said registration.  Every 
person receiving a certificate under  this act 
shall keep  the  same conspicuously exposed 
in his place of  business.  Every  registered 
pharmacist,  or  assistant,  shall,  within  ten 
days after changing his place of business or 
emplojunent, as designated by his certificate, 
notify the secretary of the board of his  new 
place  of  business. 
If  any  pharmacist  or 
registered assistant shall  fail  or  neglect to 
procure his annual registration,  or  to  com­
ply with the other provisions of this section, 
his right to act as such pharmacist or  assis­
tant shall cease at the expiration of ten days 
from the time notice of such failure to com­
ply with the provisions of this  section shall 
have been mailed to him by the secretary of 
said  board.

Sec.  8.  All or any registration  obtained 
through  false representations shall be void, 
and the board of pharmacy  may  hear  com­
plaints and evidence,  and  may  revoke such 
certificates as it may deem improperly held.
Sec.  9.  Any  proprietor  of  a  pharmacy 
who,  not  being  a  registered  pharmacist, 
shall, ninety days after this act takes effect, 
fail or neglect  to  place  in  charge of such 
pharmacy a  registered  pharmacist,  or  any 
such proprietor who shall by himself, or any 
other  person,  permit  the  compounding  or 
dispensing of prescriptions,  or  the vending 
of drugs,  medicines,  or poisons,  in his store 
or place  of  business, except  by  or  in  the 
presence and under the supervision of a reg­
istered pharmacist,  or except by a registered 
assistant; or any person,  not  being a regis­
tered pharmacist,  who shall  take  charge of 
or act as  manager  of  such  pharmacy  or 
store,  or who, not being  a  registered  phar­
macist or  registered  assistant,  shall retail, 
compound,  or dispense  drugs,  medicines or 
poisons,  or any  person  violating  any other 
provision of this act to which no  other pen­
alty is  herein  attached,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty of a misdemeanor,  and for every such 
offense,  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be 
punished by a fine  of not less  than ten nor 
more than one  hundred  dollars,  and  in de­
fault of payment thereof,  shall be imprison­
ed not less  than  ten  days,  nor  more than 
ninety days,  or both such fine and imprison­
ment,  in the discretion of the court.

Sec.  10.  Nothing in this act shall  apply 
to,  or in any manner interfere witli the bus­
iness of any practicing physician,  who  does 
not keep open  shop  for  the  retailing,  dis­
pensing or compounding  of  medicines and 
poisons,  or prevent him  from  supplying to 
his patients such  articles  as  may  seem to 
him proper, nor with the business of any re­
tail dealer engaged in business at a distance 
of not less than five miles from the limits of 
'  any incorporated village or  city, except phy­
sicians’ prescriptions, nor with the  vending 
of patent or proprietary medicines by any re­
tail dealer,  nor with the selling  by any per­
son of drugs,  medicines,  chemicals,  essen­
tial oils,  and tinctures  which  are  put up in 
bottles,  boxes or packages bearing labels se­
curely affixed  which  labels  shall  bear the 
name of the pharmacist or druggist  putting 
up the same, the dose that  may be adminis­
tered to persons three  months,  six months, 
one year,  three years,  five years,  ten  years, 
fifteen years and twenty-one  years  of  age, 
and if a poison the  name  or  names of the 
most common antidotes; nor  with  the  sell­
ing of  copperas,  borax,  blue  vitriol,  salt­
peter,  pepper,  sulphur, brimstone, liquorice, 
sage,  senna  leaves,  castor  oil,  sweet  oil, 
spirits  of  turpentine,  glycerine,  glauber 
salts, epsom  salts, cream  tartar,  bi-carbon­
ate of soda, nor with the  selling  of  pare­
goric, essence  of  peppermint,  essence  of 
ginger,  essence  of  cinnamon,  hive  syrup,

syrup of  ipecac,  tincture  of  arnica,  laudu- 
num,  quinine and all  other  preparations of 
cinchona bark,  tincture of aconite, and tinc­
ture of iron,  syrup of tolu,  syrup  of squills, 
spirts of camphor,  No.  6,  sweet  spirits of 
niter,  compound cathartic pills,  or  quinine 
pills,  when such  cathartic  or  quinine  pills 
are compounded by and put up  in bottles or 
boxes bearing the label of a registered phar­
macist,  with the name of  article  and direc­
tions for its use on  each  bottle  or  box,  nor 
with the exclusively  wholesale  business of 
any dealer.

Sec.  11.  No  person  shall  add to or re­
move from  any  drug,  medicine,  chemical, 
pharmaceutical  preparation,  any ingredient 
or material for the purpose  of  adulteration 
or substitution, which  shall  deteriorate the 
quality, commercial  value  or  medicinal af­
fect, or which shall alter the nature  or com­
position of  such  drug,  medicine,  chemical 
or  pharmaceutical  preparation,  so  that  it 
will not correspond  to  the  recognized tests 
of  identity  or  purity.  Any  person  who 
shall thus  willfully  adulterate  or  alter,  or 
cause to be adulterated  or  altered,  or  shall 
sell or offer for sale,  any  such  drug,  medi­
cine,  chemical or pharmacutical preparation, 
or any person who shall substitute,  or cause 
to be substituted,  one  material  for another, 
with the intention to defraud or deceive the 
purchaser,  shall be guilt of a  misdemeanor, 
and  be  liable  to  prosecution  under  this 
act. 
liable 
to  all 
the  action, '  and 
for the  first  offense  be  liable  to  a  fine  of 
not less than ten dollars nor more  than one
hundred dollars,  and  for  each  subsequent 
offense,  a fine of not  less  than  twenty-five 
dollars nor more than one-hundred and fifty 
dollars.  On  complaint  being  entered  the 
board of pharmacy is hereby  empowered to 
employ an analyst or  chemist,  whose  duty 
it shall  be to  examine  into  the  so-called 
adulteration,  substitution  or  alteration and 
report upon the result of  his  investigation; 
and if said report shall be deemed to justify 
such action the board shall  duly  cause the 
prosecution  of the  offender,  as  provided in 
this act.

convicted  he  shall  be 

the  costs  of 

Sec.  12.  The senior pharmacist of every 
house  dispensing  and  compounding  medi­
cines registered under this act,  shall  be ex­
empt and free from  all  jury  duty  in  the 
courts of this  State.

Sec.  13.  All acts  and  parts  of  acts  in 
conflict with  the  provisions  of  this  act are 
hereby repealed.
Amusing Errors Incident to the Drug Bus­

If 

iness.

A druggist who has a moderate  sense  of 
humor gets no little amusement  at  the  ex­
pense of some of his  customers,  and he has 
frequent occasion to retreat behind  the pre­
scription case in order to  conceal  his merri­
ment.  A young friend who has spent much 
time behind the counter of a drug store gives 
us a memorandum of some of the odd things 
his customers have  called  for.  ' One  man, 
perhaps an undertaker, wanted some  “Rose 
Hill salts;” another,  a young man, called for 
a bottle of “Susy don’t;” a policeman wranted 
some “Aesthetic acid” for his  corns; anoth­
er  young  man,  more  familiar  with  cards 
than perfumes,  innocently called  for  some 
“Jack of clubs”  (jockey  club);  and a lady
wanted  a  package  of  “consecrated  lye.” 
Another customer wrote  out  his  wants on 
paper; one was  “knightrick  acid,” and  the 
other  “kreasott.”  One  woman  said,  “I 
have quit feeding my  baby condensed milk, 
and now give it perforated milk.”  Probably 
she meant fermented milk,  but the clerk po­
litely refrained  from  inquiring.  A  young 
lady innocently  remarked  that  the  doctor 
had forbidden her mother to eat anything but 
lumbago.  An M.  D., whose early education 
had been neglected,  wrote in a prescription, 
“micil accasia.”  Another  physician  wrote 
the following prescription:

Morphia sulph........... .............gr- 1
Zinc  sulph................. .............gr- 1
Aqua Dist................... .............oz. 1

M.  ft.  Collodiiun,  sig  2  or  3  gtts,  in  the 
eye.

....  %  ’O»1 -------- -

Signs for a City Drug Store.

Soda  Water—The  Spas  at  Home—One 
Hundred Springs—Public  Telephone—Free 
Atomizer  with  Attar  of  Roses—Postage 
Stamps—Parcels Mailed—Packer’s Express; 
Trunks  5  cents—Advertisements  Received 
for All the Papers,  and  for  the  New Ones 
to be Issued Next  Week—City  Directory— 
United States Gazetteer—Cigars—Messages 
Cheerfully Delivered—We Know Everybody 
and  Everything—Oh! Come  in—Don’t  Go 
Past.

“What will you take,  madam?”  said  the 
sodawater drug clerk.  “A  little  strawber­
ry in mine,” said she.  “And you,  Sir?”  to 
the husband.  “Le’ me  see”  (scanning the 
row  of  bottles  which  contained  syrups), 
“oh,  yes; a little spiritus  frumenti,  if  you 
please.”  As  they  went  off,  after  drink- 
idg their sodawater,  she said  softly:  “Oh, 
George,  how much better that is than drink­
ing nasty, horrid brandy,  as you  used to do 
before you joined  the  temperance  people, 
isn’t it?”  And he  said  he  “rather guessed 
it was.”

It does not appear that  the  moderate  use 
of Persian opium in Persia itself  is  deleter­
ious.  Opium eaters there are  it is true,  but 
they are few.  Opium  smoking  is  almost 
unknown; and opium when smoked  is,  as a 
rule,  smoked by a native  doctor’s  prescrip­
tion.  The  opium  pill  box,  a tiny box of 
silver, is as common in Persia  as  the  snuff 
box was/once with us.  Most  men of forty 
among the upper and middle classes  use  it. 
They  take  from  a  grain 
a  grain 
and a half, divided into two pills,  one in the 
afternoon and one at night.  Travelers, too, 
almost invariably tak it.

to 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Turpentine. 
Declined—Alcohol.

AC ID S.

Acetic, No.  8.................................... 
9  ®  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)........   30  @  35
Carbolic............................................   38  @  40
Citric.................................................  60  @  65
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3  @  5
11  ®  12
Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...............................................   14}4@  15
3  ®  4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
Tartaric  powdered,.......................  52  @  55
Benzoic,  English....................oz 
18
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic...............................................  12  @  15
15  @  18 
14
5  @  6
6  @  7

Carbonate.................................^
Muriate (Powd. 22e).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................

AMMONIA.

BALSAMS.

Copaibd............................................
Fir......................................................
Peru...................................................
Tolu...................................................

BARKS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select........................
Bayberry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................

50@55
40
2  00 
50

11
18
13
14
15 
10 
12 
20 
18 
30 
12

B E R R IE S ,

Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c)...............
Juniper.............................................
Prickly Ash......................................

@  75 
6  @  7
50  @  60

EX TRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 »  doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 fi>  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, 14s 
do 
Logwood, J4s 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
..........
Fluid Extracts—25 ^ cent, off list.

37149
12
13 
15
14

f l o w e r s .

GUMS.

Arnica...............................................   10  @  | |
25
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
Chamomile,  German.....................  
25
60®  75 
50
28®  30 
65 
60 
50 
45 
35 
25 
55@60
20®  22 
13
35®  40 
80
90@1 00 
35 
20
40 
3 90 
30 
26 
24 
30
30  @1 00

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin............................................
Camphor..........................................
Catechu. Is (54 14c, 34s 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge...........................................
G uaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino TPowdered, 30c].....................
Mastic..............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.40)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s.........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth  ......................................

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia.............................................................. ..
Peppermint.......................................................2o
Rue...........................  
 
40
Spearmint..................................... 
24
Sweet Majoram................................................ 35
Tanzy..............................................................v*5
Thym e...............................................................g?
Wormwood.......................................................2o

 

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Citrate....................................   .......
Phosphate........................................

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................
Sage, Italian, bulk (34s & 54s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

LIQ U O R S.

6 40 
20
80
65

13  ®  14 
6
18  @  20 
30
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky .2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................1 75
Whisky, other brands..................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 1 35
Gin,  Holland..................................... 2 00
Brandy...............................................1 75
Catawba  Wines................................ 1 25
Port Wines.........................................1 35

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—  
Calcined...........................................

O IL S.

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor..............................................   18
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
CIOV68..................  .......................
Cod Liver,  filtered................ IP gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $)  oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  —
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50)
Salad.................................................   65
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood. German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint.......................................
Tansy............................................... 4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
Wormseed........................................

do 
do 

POTASSIUM .

Bicromate.................................3$ ft
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and 54s__
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................
Gi nger, African (Powd 14c)...........   11
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 30c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select........... .........
Pink, true.........................................
Rhei, from select to  ohoice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers.................

@2 25 
@2  00 
®1 50 
@1 75 
®3 50 
®6 50 
@2 00 
®2 50

22 
37 
2 25 
65

®  50 
»5
1  85 
50
1 80 
@  1954
2 00 
75
1  00 
35 
75 
1 201 50 
3 50 
6 00 
7 00 
1  60
2  00

50 
2  00 
2 01 
1  00 
90 
1  40
1 50 
80
® 1  10
2 75 
1 25
50
1  75 
4 50 
8 50
65 
@  67 
1 00 
4 50 
7 00 
55 
@7 00 
@5 00 
®  12
2 10
3 50 
2 00

14 
40 
19 
3 00 
28

20
25
17
33
12
20
35
20
10®  12
17 
25 
25
1 10 30
18 
15 
35
@1 50 
@1 20 
2 00 
2 25

Serpentaria......................................
Seneka..............................................
Sarsaparilla,  Hondurus................
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...

65
65
43
20
15
25
20

SEEDS.

15
6
41418
50
75
20
10
15

514
8

5  @
4  ®
15  @
1
i

Anise, Italian fPowd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in 
packages...........  
Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c). 
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
Cardamon, Malabar.......................t 
Celery................................................
Coriander, oest English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax,  clean.......................................  
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3)4).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........
Quince..............................................
Rape, English..................................  
14
Worm,  Levant.................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  ®2 50
Nassau 
do 
do 
2 00
110
Velvet Extra do 
do 
85
Extra Yellow do 
do 
65
do 
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for 6late use................  
75
Yellow Reef, 
140
................  

334®
4  @
7  ®
414®

....... 
. . . .  
 
 

6  @

do 

 
 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

6

2

@

do 
do 

do 
do 
do 

ft  214®
3  @
414®
6  @

2 34 
1 25 
50 
27 
12 
45 
354 
4 
45

50 
2 75 
2  00 
40
1 35 
@9  75
2 30 
50
@  7
12 
2 25 
18 
22 
18 
4 00 
12

1 60 
60 
1  50 
1 70 
1 90 
1 75 
&  90 
28
£  28 
i   20 
40 
45
70
%  40 
15 
50 
24
24 
12
1  10 
50 
45 
1  10 
8 3 
50 
60 
14
25 
90 
70

17 
28 
20 
40 
40
@1  no
@  40 
4 00 
1 50
7
10  @  15
8
1 00
45
50
1254®  13
60
40 
10 
12 
30 
18 
23 
60 
10 
45 
&  25 
18 
2 50

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.24) $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Alum..................................... 
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto,  prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol....................................  
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds......................................
Calomel.  American........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Colocynth  apples........................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
' cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................  85
Cinchonidia, P. &  W........*............  23
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   23
Cloves (Powd 23e)............................  18
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote.........................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone.......  ....................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts.......... ...........................  
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white..................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine, French  ..............................  45 @
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cannet..................................   12  @
Glue,white....................................  .  16  @
Glycerine, pure.................................  16 @
Hops  )4s and 54s .............................  
25®
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................   85
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica........................................... 
London  Purple.......................... . 
Lead, acetate............................................  
Lime, chloride,(54s 2s 10c & 54s 11c) 
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium....................................  
Mace.................................................  
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
Manna, S.  F ..............................................  
Mercury............................................  ' 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........oz  3 00@3 25
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s..'__
Moss, Iceland............................ft»
Moss,  Irish......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, 54d...............
Paris Green....................................  
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia............................................  
6
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... lb oz  77
Quinine,  Geirnan............................  77
Red  Precipitate...................... $lb
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
Soap, White Castile........................
.....................
Soap, Green  do 
.........................
Soap, Mottled do 
Soap, 
do  do 
........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 54 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................$  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................
Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shield  Cylinder................................................... 50
Eldorado Engine..................................................35
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 30
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine...........................................30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.............................................. 1554
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter bleached.................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
Whale, winter.....................................   70
70
Lard, extra...........................................  60 
Lard, No.  1...........................................  50 
60
Linseed, pure  raw.............................   51 
54
Linseed, boiled..................................   54
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   70 
90
Spirits Turpentine.............................   42 
.  46
No. 1 Turp Coach..................................1 10®1 20
Extra  Turp............................................1 60®1 70
Coach  Body...........................................2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar.............................. 1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.....................   70®  75
Lb
2@ 3
2@ 3
2@ 3
254® 3
234® 3
13@16
60®65
16®17
534
534
@70
@90
110
1 40
1 20@1 40
1 00®1 20

Bbl 
Red Venetian............................   134 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  1% 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  19£ 
Putty, commercial..................  254 
Putty, strictly pure..................  254 
Vermilion,prime  American.. 
Vermilion,  English.................. 
Green, Peninsular.................... 
Lead, red strictly pure...........  
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
Whiting, white Spanish.......... 
Whiting,  Gilders’.....................  
White, Pari 8 American............ 
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  Paints....... 
Swiss Villa Prepared Paints.. 

®  82 
@  82 
85 
28 
1 60 
®  80
35
@ 2
10
9
33
2  @ 254
0 15
6 50
38
4
35
454® 5
14
17
9
11
14
26  @ 28
30  @ 32
35
354® 4
354
60
2 70 
1 40 
85

V A RN ISH ES.

P A IN TS.

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Wîiolosal©

Druggists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

Drugs, Medicines, Giiumicals, 
' 
Pants,  Oils, Yarnislas, 

ait  Druggist’s

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELiliANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L.  Whiting, 

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness  is  conceded  to  be  one of the largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to  be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers of 
many articles ourselves and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brushes, French  and  Eng­
lish  Tooth  and  Nail  Brushes at attractive 
prices.
15

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACILI­
75
TIES for meeting the wants of this class  of 
buyers  WITHOUT  DELAY  and  in  the 
most approved and acceptable manner known 
to  the  drug  trade.  Our special efforts  in 
tlris direction have received  from  hundreds 
of our customers the most satisfying recom­
mendations.

Wine and LiQuor Department

We  give  our  special  and personal atten­
tion to  the  selection of choice goods for the 
DRUG  TRADE  ONLY, and trust we merit 
the  high  praise  accorded  us  for  so  satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom- 
tomers with PURE  GOODS in this  depart­
ment.  We CONTROL and are  the  ONLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS  DADE  k  CO.’S

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD  FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be excelled by  NO 
OTHER  KNOWN  BRAND  in the market, 
but superior in all respects to most  that  are 
exposed for sale.  We  GUARANTEE  per­
fect  and  complete  satisfaction  and where 
this brand of goods has been once introduced 
the future trade has been assured.

W e are also owners of the

Which continues to have so many  favorites 
among druggists who have sold these  goods 
for a very long time.  Buy our

We  call  your  attention  to the adjoining 
list of market quotations which  we  aim  to 
make as complete and  perfect  as  possible. 
For special quantities and for quotations on 
such  articles  as  do  not appear on the list, 
such as  PATENT  MEDICINES,  etc.,  we 
invite your correspondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

Curtiss, Dunton & Go.,
Grand  Rapids  Tank  Line.

PROPRIETORS

W e receive Illuminating and Lubricating Oils direct from the  Refineries  in  Tanks 

and barrel it here.

OTJIR.  BR-A-ISTOS.

Frime White, Michigan  Test.

I L T T B P l I O A . T I I S r O .

XXX  Water White. 
Electroleum.

French Valve Cylinder. 
Dark Valve Cylinder. 
Eureka Engine.
No.  i Golden.
No. 3 Golden.
15 °  Chill Test W . Va. 
74 Gasoline.
Extra Globe Engine. 
Lardoline.
Rubbing Oils.
Globe Axle Grease.

King Cylinder. 
Globe Cylinder.
25 0  Parafine.
No. 2 Golden.
Zero W . Va. 
Summer West Va. 
87 Gasoline.
Lard Engine. 
Castaroline.
Amber Engine.

A   M E R C A N T IL E   JO U R N A L , P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  BBO., Proprietors.

Office in Eagle’Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. J 

Telephone No. 95,

[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY.  JUNE  10,  1885.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

IN S U R A B L E  

IN T E R E S T — M O T H E R -IN -L A W .
A man has not an insurable interest in the 
life of his mother-in-law,  according to a  de­
cision of the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsyl­
vania.

B IL L   O F   L A D IN G — U N R E A S O N A B L E   S T IP U ­

L A T IO N S .

A stipulation in a bill  of  lading ■ exempt­
ing from liability for loss  from  delays  for 
any cause is unreasonable,  and  will not re­
lieve the  carrier  from  liability  for  losses 
caused by negligence,  according  to  the  de­
cision of the Supreme Court of Louisiana.
#
S T A T U T E   O F   L IM IT A T IO N S — N O T E S — M A ­

T U R IT Y .

Where two  notes,  maturing  at  different 
dates,  were executed at  the  same time,  and 
where each  contained  a  stipulation to  the 
effect that the failure to  pay  one  of  these 
notes when due  should  mature both  of  the 
notes, the Supreme Court of Texas held that 
the statute of limitations began to run  from 
the  date when the first note fell  due.

T A X A T IO N — “ S TO C K   I N   T R A D E .”

The meaning  of  the  phrase  “stock  in 
trade,” was involved in the case of the Sing­
er Manufacturing Co. vs.  the  Comity Com­
missioners of Essex,  decided recently by the 
Supreme Judicial  Court of  Massachusetts. 
In this case the court  held  that  merchan­
dise sold on the installment  plan,  the prop­
erty in which was not to pass  until  the full 
price had been  paid,  although it  had  been 
removed from the store of the vendor or les­
sor,  continued  to be “stock in trade” of such 
vendor or lessor,  and subject to taxation as 
such until the full  price  was  paid  and  the 
property had  passed.

COM M ON C A R R IE R S — L IA B IL IT Y — C O N N E C T ­

IN G   L IN E S .

The case of Block as. The Erie and North 
Shore Despatch Fast  Freight  Line  was  an 
action of cmtract brought against the Fitch­
burg and seven  other  railroads  doing  busi­
ness  as  common  carriers  under  the  above 
title. 
It appeared  that  the  several  defen­
dant corporations formed  an  association  or 
company for the transportation of  merchan­
dise between Boston and  Chicago,  that the 
association had an agent in Boston who was 
authorized  to  receive  goods  at  Boston  for 
transportation over the line  to Chicago,  and 
to give bills of lading or contracts for trans­
portation; that the plaintiff  delivered goods 
to such agent and received the bill of lading 
in suit; and  that  a  part  of  the  goods  was 
lost between Boston and  Chicago.  By  the 
bill of lading the “Erie & North Shore Des­
patch” contracted to  carry  the  goods  from 
Boston  by  the  Fitchburg  Railroad,  and, 
thence by the Erie & North Shore Despatch 
to Chicago,' and  there  to  deliver  them  to 
connecting railroad lines to be forwarded to 
Denver,  their destination.  The bill of  lad­
ing contained the provision that,  in  case of 
loss or  damage  to  the  property  received 
whereby any legal liability  should  or might 
be incurred,  that  company  should  alone be 
held answerable  therefor  in  whose  actual 
custody the same  might  be at  the  time of 
the happening thereof. 
It also  contained a 
provision that in case  of  loss or  damage to 
any of the goods  “for  which  either of  said 
companies may be  liable,  it is  agreed  that 
said company shall have  the  benefit of any 
insurance effected  thereon  by the  owner.” 
The Supreme Judicial  Court  of  Massachu­
setts,  in a  decision  rendered  on  the  12th 
inst.,  held that by the  tine  construction  of 
the bill of lading or contract of  carriage the 
defendants were liable for any loss happen­
ing between Boston and Chicago.  The court 
said  that  the  several  railroad  companies 
forming the associations were not  named in 
the contract. 
It was a single  and  indivisi­
ble contract, by which  the  Erie  &  North 
Shore Despatch  line  agreed  to  carry  the 
goods to Chicago,  the  freight  to  be earned 
upon the delivéry  there  to  the  connecting 
line.  The  defendants  formed  a  company, 
and in its name made  a  special  contract to 
carry the plaintiff’s  goods  from  Boston  to 
Chicago.  They were,  so far as the plaintiff 
was concerned,  partners,  and liable,  jointly 
and severally,  for any loss or damage  to his 
goods between Boston  and  Chicago,  unless 
they were exempted  from  liability  by  the 
terms of the contract.

Method in His Madness.

A Philadelphia  oil  broker,  who  was  in 
Northern Michigan a few days  ago,  struck 
a town where an  enterprising  citizen  had 
been boring away at a well for the past four 
months.  The Philadelphian  went  over to 
see the bore,  and said to the man:

“As there isn’t one chance in  a  thousand 
that you will find either oil  or  salt,  let me 
ask what you are boring for?”

“Well,” replied the man, after seeming to 
think it over; “I started in for  mineral  wa­
ter, but as a Boston  man  came  along  and 
offered to put in  §7,000  cash,  I’m  drilling 
away to use up his capital.”

W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

CHECKS.

SIL E S IA S .

OSNABURG.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Pepperell, 10-4........25
Pepperell, 11-4........27 %
Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pequot,  8-4..............21
Pequot,  9-4..............24
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz..............11
Otis Apron..............1034
Otis  Furniture...... 10%
York, 1  oz.............. 10
York, AA, extra oz.14
Alabama plaid.......7
Augusta plaid........ 7
Toledo plaid............  7
Manchester plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid........614

Mason ville TS........   8
Masonville  S...........1014
Lonsdale...................914
Lonsdale A ..............16
Nictory  O...............
Victory J .................
Victory D ...........
Victory  K ...............  234
Phoenix A ............... 1914
Phoenix B ............... 1014
Phoenix X X ............ 5
P R IN T S .Gloucester............... 6
Gloucestermourn’g . 6
Hamilton  fancy__ 6
Hartel fancy............ 6
Merrimac D..............6
Manchester..............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........614
Pacific  robes............ 6
Richmond... .............6
Steel River...............514
Simpson’s .................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues.  714

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4........16 V*
Pepperell,  8-4........20
Pepperell,  9-4....... 3234
Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Economy, oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown—   7
J e w e ll   briwn..........0%
Kentucky  browu..1014 
Lewiston  brown...  934
Lane brown........... 914
Louisiana plaid—
Avondale,  36..........  8k  ¡Greene, G.  4-4........   514
Hill, 4-4....................  714
Art  cambrics,36...1114 
Hill, 7-8....................  634
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 
Hope,  4-4.................. 634
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1214
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4...............  614
bric, 4-4.................1114
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Linwood,  4-4..........  714
Boott, 0.4-4............  814
Lonsdale,  4-4............734
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Lonsdale  cambric. 1014 
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......914
Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Boott, R. 3-4..........  514
Langdon,  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7 
Masonville,  4-4.......8
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6
Maxwell. 4-4............  914
Conway,  4-4........... 7
New York Milt, 4-4.1014 
Cabot, 4-4...................0%
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Pride of the West. .11
Domestic,  36..........  714
Pocahontas,  4-4___ 734
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  9 
Slaterville, 7-8........   614
Davol, 4-4
Fruitòf Loom, 44..  8341 Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 44........534
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  714
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8__ 614
cambric,  4-4........11
W amsutta, 4-4........1014
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  634
Williamsville,  36... 1014
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............. 834
Crown..................... 17
No.  10..................... 1214
Coin........................ 10
Anchor....................15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol.......................14
London................... 1214
Paconia..................12
Red  Cross...............10
Social  Imperial— 16
Albion, solid............514
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........514
Ailen’s  fancy...........514
Allen’s pink..............6%
Allen’s purple.......... 614
American, fancy— 514
Arnold fancy............6
Berlin solid............... 514
Cocheco  fancy.........6
Cocheco robes.......... 614
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddy ston e............... 6
Eagle fancy..............5
darner pink..............614
Appleton  A, 4 4 ....  7141 Indian Orchard, 40.  8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   634 Indian Orchard, 36.  114
Boston F, 4-4..........  714 Laconia B, 74.........1614
Continental C, 4-3..  634 Lyman B, 40-in......1014
Continental D, 40 in 834 Mass. BB, 4 4 .  ......  534
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 814
Conestoga W, 4-4...  614 
Nashua  R, 4-4........  714
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  514 
Nashua 0,7-8..........634
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
Newmarket N ........ 6J4
Dwight  X, 34........   534
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7
Dwight Y, 7-8........... 5%
Pepperell  R, 44__ 734
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  634
Pepperell  0,7-8__ 634
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
Pepperell N, 34__ 634
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......634
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Saranac  R...............  734
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Saranac  E ...............  9
Farmers’ A, 44.......6
Indian  Orchard  44 714
Amoskeag..........
Amoskeag, Persian
styles................
Bates....................
Berkshire............
Glasgow checks..
Glasgow checks, f ’y 734
Glasgow 
.  8 White Mfg Co, fane  8
rovai  styles....
Gloucester, 
.  7% Earlston............... 8
standard  ..........
.  7% Gordon .................... 734
Plunket...............
.  8 Greylock, 
Lancaster............
.  7% styles  .................. 13V*
Langdale.............
Androscoggin, 74 .21 Pepperell.  104....... 3734
Androscoggin, 84 .23 Pepperell,  11-4....... 33 V*
Pepperell,  74 — .20 Pequot,  74............. 21
Pepperell,  84 — .22% Pequot,  8-4............. 24
Pepperell,  94 — .25 Pequot,  9-4............. 27 V*
.  7% lLawrence XX, 4-4. 734
Atlantic  A, 44...
.  7 Lawrence  Y, 30__ 7
Atlantic  H ,44...
.  6% Lawrence LL, 4-4.. 534
Atlantic  D, 44...
Atlantic P, 44— .  5V4 ¡Newmarket N ........ 634
.  5% Mystic River, 44.. 534
Atlantic LL, 44..
.  7% 'Pequot A, 4-4.......... 734
.  6*4 ¡Piedmont,  36.......... 6k
Augusta, 44........
.  6& Stark AA, 4-4.......... 734
Boott M, 44........
.  VkTremont CC, 4-4__ 534
Boott FF, 44.......
.  5% Utica,  44................ 9
Graniteville, 4-4..
.  7 Wachusett,  4-4....... 134
Indian  Head, 4-4.
Indiana Head 45-in.1234iWachusett, 30-in.. 6k
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag,  ACA. ..14 Falls, XXXX........ 18V*
Amoskeag  “ 4-4..19 Falls, XXX............ 15 V*
Amoskeag,  A — .13 Falls,  BB............... 11V*
Amoskeag,  B __ ..12 Falls,  BBC, 36........ 19V*
Amoskeag,  C — ..11 Falls,  awning....... 19
Amoskeag,  D — . . 10% Hamilton,  BT, 32. 12
Amoskeag,  E — ..10 Hamilton,  D........
9%
Amoskeag, F ....... ..  0% Hamilton,  H __   . 934
Premium  A, 44.. ..17 Hamilton  fancy.. 10
Premium  B —  .. ..16 Methuen AA........ 13V*
Extra 44 ............... ..16 Methuen ASA....... 18
Extra 7-8............... ..14V, Omega A, 7-8........ 11
Gold Medal4-4.... ..15 Omega A, 4-4........ 13
CCA 7-8................. . .1214 Omega ACA, 7-8... 14
CT 4-4.................... ..14 Omega ACA, 44... 16
RC 7-8.................... ..14 Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
BF 7-8.................... .16 Omega SE, 44....... 27
............... ..19 Omega M. 7-8....... 22
AF 44 
Cordis AAA, 32... ..14 Omega M, 44........ 25
Cordis ACA, 32... . .15 Shetucket SS&SSW 1134
Cordis No. 1, 32... . .15 Shetucket, S & Sw .12
Shetucket,  SFS  .. 12
Cordis  No. 2........ ..14
Stockbridge  A __ 7
Cordis  No. 3........ ..13
Cordis  No. 4........ . .1134'Stockbridge  trncy 8
.  5 Empire..................
Garner................
Hookset............... ..  5 Washington..........
4 %
5
Red  Cross.......... ..  5 Edwards................
S. S. & Sons............ 5
Forest Grove.......
G R A IN   BAGS.
American  A ....... .18 00 Old  Ironsides....... 15
.2234iWheatland............ 21
Stark A ................
DENIM S.
Boston................ ..  6% Otis  CC.................. 10k
Everett blue....... ..1334¡Warren  AXA....... 1334
Everett brown... ..13k ¡Warren  BB.......... 11V*
Otis  AXA........... . .1234 ¡Warren CC........... 10V*
Otis BB................ ..11 % ¡York  fancy.......... • 13 V*
Manville............... ..  6 IS. S. & Sons...........
Masgn ville.......... ..  6 ¡Garner ..................
Red  Cross........... ..  7%¡Thistle Mills..........
Berlin.................. ..  7%I Rose.......................
Garner................ ..  7%1
Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F.......55
J. & P.  Coats..........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread........... 30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Mer ricks.................40
Stafford...................25
Hall & Manning__ 25
Holyoke...................25
Armory..................  734|Kearsage.................8»
Androscoggin sat..  8}4|Naumkeagsatteen. 834
Canoe River...........   6  Pepperell bleached 814
Clarendon...............  634 Pepperell sat..........914
Hallowell  Imp.......  634!Rockport........... ...  7
Ind. Orch. Imp.......7  ! Lawrence s a t.......  814
Laconia...................  734lConegosat..............   7

.  7 % Renfrew, dress styl 7 V*
Johnson Manlg Co,
-10V4 Bookfold............. 12%
.  7%. Johnson  Manfg Co,
6% dress  styles........ 12%
7 Slaterville, 
dress
styles.................... 7%
White Mfg Co, stap  7%
White  Manf’g  Co,

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

checks,
new

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

CORSET JE A N S .

W IG AN S.

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COAL AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

1  00
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
85
130
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1 30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......................  
1  30
Car lots 
..................... 1  05@1 10
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Laud plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
2 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per  bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell,  car lots...................................  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots............................3 10®3 25
BJossburgor Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement.................................  3 50@4 00

COAL.

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

TOBACCO

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

F L T J C   T O B A C C O .

RED  F O X ..........................................................48
BIG  D R I V E ......................................................50
..........................................................46
PATROL 
JACK  RABBIT 
..............................................38
SILVER  C O I N ..................................................40
P A N IC ......................................................................46
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
.35
BIG  STUMP 
.38
APPLE  J A C K .................................................. 46

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THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
.64
STUNNER,  D A R K ..........................................38
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T ......................................50
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
.40.
FRUIT 
-  * ..............................................32
O  SO  S W E E T ................................................. .30

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2c less in 6 pail lots.

S M O K I N G ,

ARTHUR'S  CHOICE,  LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
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RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
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GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
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OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
SEAL  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  - 
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2c less in  100 pound lots.

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.26
.26
.27
.24
.24

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

Who warrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  W e cordially invite you, when  in 
the  city,  to  visit  our  place  of  business,  55  and  57 
Canal st.  IT  MAY  SAVE  YOU  MONEY.

J E N N I N G S   < &   S M I T H ,

Arctic  Manufacturing  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE

20 Lyon St., Grand. Rapids.

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

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-A.rotic  13 alcing  Powder.
See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepare! to make Bottom Prices oi anytMipe handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,
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POX, B E M l  k K

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Wholesale  Grocers.

3  Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Sole Owners  of

A R A B   P L U G - !

The Best and Most Attractive Goods on the  Market.  Send for 

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

The Old Reliable

N I M R O D

FX jXJO-  t o b a c c o

Is  for  Sale  by  all  Grand  Hapids  Jobbers.

SAMPLES  FURNISHED  ON  APPLICATION.

S.  W .  VEUST_A.I3I_iE  <&  O O

Petersburg;, Va.

W e guarantee best value for the price on all our Lubricating  Oils.

CURTISS, RUOTTOKT  db  CO,

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS  FOR THE

Our spring samples are now ready for inspection at prices as 
low as the lowest.  We make a Gent’s Shoe to retail  for $3  in 
Congress, Button and Bals that can’t be beat.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

s p r in g  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

CARPETS,

M ATTINGS,

O IL   C L O T H S

STG., EÎTO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Rapids, 

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Michigan.

Sands’ Patent Triple Motion

WHITE  MOUNTAIN 

IGE  CREAM 

FREEZER!

The  only  Freezer  ever  made  having  three  distinct 
motions,  thereby  producing  finer,  smoother  Cream 
than any other  Freezer  on  the  market.  Acknowl­
edged  by  every  one  to  be the best in the world.  Over 
300,000  in  use  To-day.  Outside Irons Galvanized, but 
all inside the  can  coated  with  Pure  Block  Tin.  Tubs 
water-proof;  easily  adjusted  and  operated.  We  also 
carry  large  stock  of  Packing  Tubs, Packing  Cans,  lee 
Crushers, etc.  Send for Price List and  Trade  Discounts. 

AddressFoster, Stevens & Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Agents for Western Michigan.

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The  Autobiography of  a Corset.

Chapter  L

The history of my birth and the first days 
of my  life  possess  but  little  interest.  At 
an early age I was carried off from my birth 
place with  several  of  my  companions  and 
placed in a large store on a street which I soon 
learned was called Monroe.  While  my fel­
lows remained packed away in  boxes,  I, on 
account of my superior  beauty,  I  suppose, 
was hung up in full view of the public.  At 
first I felt proud  of  the  honor  and  made 
much over myself, but I soon perceived that 
my fancied elevation was  in fact the  great­
est obstacle to my success in life,  for,  while 
my companions rapidly  followed  one  after 
another out into  the  world,  to  fulfill  their 
destiny,  I  remained  solitary  and  unsought 
for. 
It was not because I was not admired. 
When any one asked for a corset  I  was  in­
variably taken  down,  my  beauty  and  ster­
ling qualities  lauded,  and  everything  done 
to tickle my vanity, but somehow  or  other, 
when I  pleased,  which  was  generally the 
case,  I was always hung up  again  and  one 
of my companions handed out in  my  stead. 
It was useless to protest  against  this  gross 
injustice,  and,  moreover,  I soon learned  my
true nature—I was a sample._Mylof ty pos-
ition cut me off from all companionship with 
my fellows,  and very soon I heartily wished 
that  I,  too,  had  remained  humbly  packed 
away in a  box—a warning,  let me tell  you, 
to those  people  who  fancy  that  elevated 
rank always brings happiness.

Gradually I became  morose  and  melan­
choly,  and I know not what  dark  crime  I 
might have committed had I not been  time­
ly rescued.
One bleak  December  morning—ah,  how j 
well I remember it!—while I  was  brooding 
over my  present  miseries  and  looking for­
ward gloomily to the future, the  door open­
ed  and  there  entered,  gentle  reader,  the 
most entracing vision  of  petite,  black-eyed 
female loveliness I had ever  seen,  and I as­
sure you I had seen many pretty women. 
I 
fell in love with her at first sight, if a corset 
may be properly  said to  fall  in  love,  and 
awaited  with  breathless  interest  to  hear 
what she would ask for.

A corset!  Oil joy of joys!  And  number 

16—my number!  Oh my ribs keep still!

I was at once handed down and O the joy, 
the complete  ecstasy  of  being fondled  by 
those soft white  fingers!  It  was  but  for’a 
moment,  alas! for although I pleased  her,  I 
was,  as usual, put back again by  the  heart­
less clerk, who went to  seek  out one of my 
companions. 
I was in  the  darkest  despair 
when he returned and told the  lady that he 
had no more of that number.

“Great heavens!  Haven’t you got me?”  I 
tried to shout, but, being  moutliless,  failed.
Imagine the thrill of delight which vibrat­
ed through every part of me when the sweet 
creature said she would like to  have  me if 
the clerk would part with his sample.

petted corset who experienced  the  joys  re­
corded in the above chapter?  How is it that 
I am away up here in the garret,  amidst old 
rags and paper—my ribs  broken,  all  soiled 
and covered with  dust,  my life  fast ebbing 
away?  Why am I  thus  pitched  aside  and 
forsaken?

My lady has now been  married  nearly a 

year. 

I hare grown too small for her!

P.  S.—Since writing  the,  above  I  have 
been consoled by a  visit  from  one  of  my 
companions who had  fallen to  the lot  of  a 
dude.  The relation  of the  horrors he went 
through will give me  strength  to  bear  up 
during the few remaining  days  of  my life.
I  have  fallen  into a 
terrible place,  and am being torn limb  from 
limb.  Surely,  this must  be  the  end of  all 
things—the paper millennium.

P.  P.  S.—Horrors! 

ire Ion G oii to 
Siielve a Store, Pan­
try or Closet!

Bracket SleMm Irons
Creates  a N ew Era 
in  Store  Furnish­
ing.  It  entirely su­
the  old 
persedes 
style  wherever  in­
troduced.

Torrance, Merriam & Co,,

Manufacturers 

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TROY, N. Y.

T H E  

N E I G H B O R S
All  say  that the
CHAMPION
F I

Is the Finest Thing in the 

World to kindle 

Fires with,
In SUMMER  OR  W INTER. 
It  is  neat, 
cheap and handy.  Fifty  fires  can  be  kin­
dled with  a  io  CENT PACKAGE.  Each 
square  block  will  BURN  io  MINUTES, 
and  kindle  coal  or  wood  fires  in  Grate, 
Stove or Furnace.

The  wretch  softened,  wrapped  me  up, 
and in another moment I reposed  upon  the 
breast of my loved one,  and we were  whirl­
ing up Cherry  street.

We soon arrived at a handsome residence, 
and,  still clasped in her  arms,  we  ascended 
to the  prettiest  little  boudoir  imaginable. 
Shall I confess that  I blushed  when  I  saw 
the preparations for my embrace?

Every Farmer or Fisherman wants it.
Every Traveler or Tourist wants it.
Every Hotel and  Boarding House wants 
it.
Every family needs and will use it if they 
once try it.
Ask your Grocer or Dealer for the Cham­
pion Fire Kindler.
Directions—Clear away the  ashes,  place 
the Kindler in the grate or in the stove and 
Yes; gentle  reader,  I  blushed—I,  a  dig­
Pile your coal or wood
light with a match
nified,  modest corset, blushed.  My modesty
so as not to smother the flame.  To start 
was soon to be  even  more  sorely  tried,  for  hard coal fire,  some  soft  coal  or  wood  re
quired.  Try a io cent package and believe.
she took me up and—O,  gentle reader,  may 
such a moment of ecstasy  one  day  fall  to | 
your lot—elapsed  me  tightly  around  her j 
waist.
Terrified and  trembling,  I  first  made  a j 
faint show of resistance,  but  she  pulled me j 
only the closer, and to prevent my escape tied 
me.  Yielding at last,  I gave  myself up en- j 
tirely to the delights  of my  situation,  and | 
clasping her in a long, close embrace, swoon- j 
ed away with joy.

TIMETABLES. 

M ic h ig a n  ( Te f t p a l

The Niagara Falls (Route.

DEPA R T.

 

♦Detroit Express.........................  
6:00 am
+Day Express..........................................12:45 p m
tAtlantic Express.................................... 9:20 p m
Way Freight...................................................   6:50 am
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
+Mail......................................................... 3:50 p m
♦ Grand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:50 pm
Way Freight......................................................5:15 am

ARRIVE.

tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. in., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:50 p. m.

J. T. Schultz. Gen’l Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  Arrives,
4:25 pm
tMail......................................9:15 am  
tDay  Express.....................12:35 p m  10:45 p m
*Night  Express..................8:35 pm  
4:45 am
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without  extra charge to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
9:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express.................................4:15  pm   4:05 pm
Express................................ 8:05  am   11:15 am
All trains arrive and depart from Union De­
pot.
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. &  P. M. trains  to  and from  Ludington and 
Manistee.

J. H. C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .;
Arrive. 
Express..................... .........7:15 p m 
Mail.......................................9:50 am  

Leave.
7:30 a m
4:00 pm

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  train 

leaving  at 4 p. m. connects at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches from Chicago  to  New  York and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:30  a. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket olfice, 
67 Moure street and  depot.

J. W . M cK e n n e y , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Leaves.
Ai■rives.
:17 a m 6:25 a m
tSteamboat  Express..
io :10 am 10:20 am
tThrough Mail...........
tEvening Express.... .......3 20p ra
3:35 p m
27 pm 6:30 p m
♦Limited Express.....
tMixed, yrith coach...
10:30 a m
♦Morning Express?1?!* ...1 1 05 pm 1:10 p m
10 pm 5:15 p m
tThrough Mail...........
tSteambo at Express.. ! ! ! ! .io 40 p m 10:45 p m
7:10 a m
tMixed..
:10 a m 5:20 a m
♦Night Express............
tDaily, Sundays exc(;pted. ♦Dailv
l.  Express
Passen;?ers  taking the  6:i
make clo se connectioris at Oivosso for Lansing
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:45  p.  m.  will make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to  Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.
G e o . B. R e e v e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

PU R E  C A N D Y !

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates, 

NUTS,

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West  Michigan  01  Company,

(SUCCESSORS  TO  STANDARD  OIL  CO.,)

63  Monroe Street,  Grand Rapids, Mich,

Jno.  C.  Bonneil,  Pres. 

J.  H.  Bonnell, Sec’y.

Illuminating  and  Lubricating

If in Need of Anything in  our  Line,  it 

will pay you to get our Prices.

PA TEN T EES  a n d   s o l e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s   o f

O

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Barlow’s Patent

Send for Samples and Circular. Mia aid Gasoline

1

Barlow 

Brothers

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

P E T E R   D O R A N ,  

Attomey-at-Law,

Pierce  Block,  Grand  Rapids,  M idi.

Practices  in State  and United  States  Courts 
Special attention given to

MERCANTILE  COLLECTIONS.

E.  F A L L A S ,

Wholesale  &  Comissioi-Bilter  &  Em   a  Sueclalty

Choice Butter always on hand.  All  Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

DEALERS  IN

No. 1 Egg Crates  for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  50 cents each.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

NOS.  182  and  124  LOUIS  STREET.  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

9 7  and 99 Canal Street,
P E R K I N S   <&  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
B.  W.  Archer’s  Trophy  Coro,
D. W. Archer's Morning Glory Coro,
D, W. Archer's Early Col Ben Drop Corn

NO.  2.  AND  3  CANS.

YOUNG,  TENDER  AND  SWEET,

NATURAL  FLAVOR  RETAINED. 

GUARANTEED  PURITY.

$1,000  IN  GOLD.

NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR. 

NO  CHEMICALS  USED.

NOT  BLEACHED  WHITE. 
NO  WATER  IN  CANS.

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only.  Respectfully,

When I returned to consciousness I found 
all things changed and I was in a brilliantly 
lighted ball-room,  sweet music  was floating 
through the air,  and—yes—some villian was 
waltzing with  my  lady  and  had  his  arm j 
around her  waist.

How I longed to spurn  the  wretch  from ! 
me and from  that  waist  which  had  been 
placed under my protection. 
I  had  the  in­
side track on him, however,  and I longed to 
tell him so too.  My indignation  had reach­
ed a high pitch,  and I was panting  with  re­
venge when the waltz  ended,  and  my  lady 
and  her companion  went to the  conserva­
tory.

They took  seats  in a  secluded  spot,  but 
what they said shall never be  known to  the 
world through  me.  A  corset is nothing if 
not honorable. 
In a few  minutes  his  arm 
stole around  her  waist,  and  the  pressure 
soon became so great that I thought  I surely 
would expire. 
I could do nothing to defend 
myself,  but I had  one  consolation,  which 
was,  as I said before,  that lie could  not cut 
me out.

Lest I become  tiresome,  I  will  only  say 
that my unmarried  life,  or  rather  the  un­
married life of my lady was to him a crystal 
streamlet of  bliss,  but,  alas,  flowing as I 
was soon to discover  into  the  dark  pool of 
misery!  One day I heard that my lady was 
to be married.

At the time I was glad,  for I will confess 
that  I  was  beginning  to  become  surfeited 
with my delights and longed  for a  novelty. 
What that novelty was to be  I  soon discov­
ered.  Ah,  that I had  remained  forever  in 
in my solitary misery in my old store home, 
or perished before that  fatal  wedding  day! 

What! 

Chapter  II.

Is this really myself—-the happy,

THE  ARCHER  PACKING  CO.,  Chillicothe, Ills.

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GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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DRYDEN &  PALMER’S 

R O C K   C A 2 T D T T .

Unquestionably the best in  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
Jolin Oaulfielci,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.
Rfinrl  your, own  Bone,
U1IIIU  Meal,  Oyster  Shells, 
GRAHAM  Flour  and Corn 
in the «15 H A N D  IVEZXiXj 
(F.  Wilson’s  Patent).  lOO  per 
eent. more made in keeping poul­
try.  «Also  POWER,  MILLS  and  FARM 
FEED MILLS.  Circulars  and Testimonials sent 
on application.  WILSON BROS., Easton, Pa«

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Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GO ING  SOUTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  7:00 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  3:55 p m 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  3:50 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayr> e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac.  7:40 p m

GOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves
10:25 a m 
5:00 p m 
7:10 a.m
7:15 a m 
6:00pm 
11:45 p m

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  Trainleaving at 10:25a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

Trains connect with G.  R. & I.  trains  for  St. 
Ignace, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 10:25 a. m. and 11:00  p. 
m., arriving at Marquette at 3:30 p. m.  Return­
ing leave Marquette at 2:20  p.  m.,  arriving  at 
Grand Rapids at 12:25 a.m and  3:50  p. m.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with the Marquette, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  for  the 
Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.

Gen’l Frt. & Pass. Agt.,  Marquette, Mich.

F.  MILLIGAN,

Goodrich Steamers.

Leave  Grand Haven Tuesday, Thursday and 
Sunday evenings, connecting with train on D., 
G. H. & M. Ry.  Returning, leave Chicago Mon­
day,  Wednesday  and  Friday  evenings,  at  7 
o’clock, arriving at Grand  Haven  in  time  for 
morning train east.

Grand River Steamer.

The  Steamer  Barrett  leaves  her  dock  for 
Grand Haven, Mondays, Wednesdays  and  Fri­
days, returning on alternate days.

J U D U >  

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JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 

And Full Line Summer Goods.

102  CANAL  STREET.

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
E  1ST  G I N E S
From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made for 
Complete Outfits.

A7V.  C,  Denison,

88,90  and 92  South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

W idow  Spriggs  Describes  Her  Apart- 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

(Groceries.

H ow Chiccory is Grown and Prepared.
The chiccory root,  which  was  used  more 
with coffee when the latter brought a higher 
price than it does now,  but  which  is  still 
greatly used  on  the  Continent,  somewhat 
resembles a parsnip.  The  stem rises  to  a 
heightli of two  or  three  feet, 
the  leaves 
round the base  being  toothed,  not  unlike 
those of the dandelion—indeed,  it is closely 
allied to  that  plant.  The  preparation  of 
chiccory as carried  on  in  Belgium,  is  very 
simple.  The older white roots are selected, 
cleaned,  sliced and kiln dried,  and are  then 
ready for the  manufacturer. 
It  is  roasted 
in an  iron  cylinder,  called a  drum,  which 
revolves over a coke furnace.  When  taken 
out it is of a dark  brown  color,  and  while 
hot it is soft  and  pliable;  but  after  being 
raked out  and  subjected  to a  draught  of 
cold air,  it becomes  hard  and  crisp,  and is 
then ready for the mill.  From  the mill the 
powder is passed through  a  cylinder  sieve, 
from which it emerges as fine  as  the  finest 
flour;  and  the  partially  ground  pieces,  or 
foreign matters that may have  found  their 
way into the chiccory, drop into  a  separate 
bin.  The shades of color  vary occasionally 
to  suit  the  taste  of  the  purchaser.  The 
chiccory root is cultivated in  Belgium,  Hol­
land,  France  and  Germany. 
In  Belgium, 
where it is also  used  as  a  vegetable,  it  is 
very extensively grown,  its culture  and  its 
manufacture (both of which  are  unrestrict­
ed) forming two of the  greatest  industries 
of the  country; and its  infusion is  largely 
drank  as an  independent  beverage.  For 
home  consumption it  is put  up  in  small 
round and square packets of various weights 
with highly colored and  attractive  looking 
labels attached, and so dispensed to the pub­
lic, who ean also purchase it in a loose state. 
To preserve it  in good  condition,  chiccory 
should be kept in a  tightly  closed  tin  box 
and in a dry place; otherwise it will become 
lumpy and rank, and unfit for use. 
Instead 
of being  ground  down  to  a  fine  powder, 
chiccory is sometimes granulated—that is to 
say,  ground  into  grains  or  small  lumps. 
This is often done when it  is  intended  for 
export,  as in this  state  it  can  be  packed 
loosely in barrels,  and  is  less  likely  to  de­
teriorate.  When  exported  in  powder it  is 
packed in tin cases, which  are hermetically 
soldered down  to  prevent  injury  from at­
mospheric  changes.  The  London  Gorcer 
says that quantities prepared  in  both  ways 
are annually shipped  from  Belgium  to  all 
parts of the  world.

Proof  Positive.

“We  have  held  a  consultation,”  saida 
doctor to his patient,  “but we are  unable to 
agree as to the exact nature of your disease. 
Three of the physicians  are of  one opinion, 
while I am of another.”

“But,  doctor,” said the patient anxiously, 

“how will the matter be settled?”

“Oh, the autopsy  will  show  who  knows 

best.”

Salem,  Oregon, does a  thriving  business 
in raising rhubarb,  large shipments of which 
are made to Boston regularly.

Severe droutlies have  played the mischief 
with the sugar business in Brazil  this year. 
The export trade is 30 per cent,  less than in 
1884.

A good cigar can only he  told  “for  sure” 
by smoking it. 
It  isn’t  safe  to bet on the 
color.  Taste  and  smell  are  the  decisive 
tests.

Having  failed  to  blast  the  peach  crop, 
the  states  of  Kentucky  and  Indiana  an­
nounce that not  more  than  enough  wheat 
for seed will be raised in tnose  sections this 
year.
n  In Scotland a countryman whose old horse 
had died took  the  skin  to  a tanner.  The 
tanner said,  in the Scotch dialect peculiar to 
the district:  “I canna gie you full price for 
this skin; it’s ower sma’.”  The reply  was: 
“That quare; the aul  horse  wore it twenty 
years and inair,  and  niver  made  any com­
plaint about its bein ower  sma’.”

It ought  to  be  generally  known  that  a 
man’s hat will serve in most cases as a tem­
porary life preserver to  those in  danger  of 
drowning.  When a person finds himself in 
the water he should lay hold of his  hat  be­
tween his hands; keeping the crown close un­
der his chin and the mouth of the hat under 
water.  The quantity of air contained in the 
cavity of the hat will  keep the  head  above 
water for a long time—sometimes for sever­
al hours.

Under  the  Mexican  law  a  creditor  can 
have a debtor arrested on the  day when the 
debt falls due.  The prisoner is chained to a 
post five days,  guarded  by an  officer.  At 
the end of the time if the money is not forth­
coming,  the man’s labor is sold to  the  gov­
ernment for 40 cents a day for as many days 
as will be necessary to discharge the obliga­
tion.  The miserable debtor  is  sent  to the 
silver mines,  where he is chained to a  gang 
of felons  and  compelled  to  work  under­
ground.  He sleeps underground, and never 
sees daylight again  until  he  is  restored  to 
freedom.

A merchant who  had  repeatedly  dunned 
a man sent him a bill  for  the  amount  due. 
In addition to the necessary  rule  of  figure 
work,  the merchant  added  the  following: 
“I am becoming  tired  of  the  indifference 
with which you treat  this  matter,  and I de­
sire to hear from this bill at once.”  Several 
days afterward  the  merchant  received  the 
following,  written on  a  postal-card:  “Ac­
cept my thanks for the bill  which you were 
kind enough to send. 
I have never troubled 
you about the  matter.  When  I owe a man 
it’s my disposition to  treat  him  kindly but 
firmly. 
I never hang  around  him.  Well, 
whenever you  haven’t  anything  else  to do 
send me another bill.”

Evidently a Local  Allusion.

T. T. in Grand Rapids Post.

T.  T.  has abundance of  sympathy for the 
man who after a  square  and  honorable  at­
tempt to gain  a  foothold  in  the  business 
world finds  himself  “driven  to  the  wall,” 
but only contempt for the man who fails for 
the benefit of his wife instead of  his  credi­
tors.  There are few “tricks  of  the  trade” 
that have more of concentrated meanness in 
them than a deliberate attempt to  get goods 
and chattels into one’s hands  with  the pur­
pose to confiscate them under  the  bankrupt 
law. 
It is not alone the fact  that  such  an 
act stamps the one  who  engages  in it as a 
thief  among  respectable  people,  but  it 
knocks the props out from under every poor 
but honorable business man in  the  country 
who needs accommodations that  he  cannot 
get just because  the  thief  has  been  there 
ahead of him.  And then it demoralizes and 
breaks up trade  just  because  stolen  goods 
can be sold so much cheaper than those that 
are paid for.  T.  T.  is not positive that any 
one in this city is doing  that  kind  of  busi­
ness at present; still there may be some one 
doing just that,  and  the  above  suggestions 
can do no harm.

Upper Peninsula Business Men.

The Upper Peninsula Business Men’s As­
sociation met at Marquette  on  the 2d,  with 
forty  delegates  in  attendance.  Houghton, 
Schoolcraft  and  Keweenaw  counties  were 
not  represented.  Henry  W.  Seymour,  of 
Sault Ste Marie,  acted  as  chairman.  Dur­
ing the sessions a  resolution  was  adopted 
urging Congress to buy  the  Portage  Lake 
ship canal and complete the Hay Lake chan­
nel to St. Mary’s river, and a resolution was 
telegraphed to Lansing asking for  the pass­
age of the bill providing for  a  branch State 
Penitentiary.  The  following  committees 
were  appointed:  On  State  Relations;  on 
St. Mary’s Falls Canal; on Hay Lake Chan­
nel; on Portage Lake Canal  and  River; on 
Harbors.  These committees were  instruct­
ed to gather all possible  data  regarding the 
respective  subjects  and  put  the  same  in 
shape for effective use:  The convention ad­
journed until September  8, when it will re­
assemble  at 
Ishpeming.  Arrangements 
have been made to secure a full ’representa­
tion.  The convention upon  the  whole was 
more of a success than was  generally antic­
ipated and when it reassembles  next fall it 
may be called upon to do effective work.

Cold Comfort.

From the Ionia Standard.

I.  E.  Messmore,  of/Grand Rapids,  is  in 
Washington,  looking  after  a  consulship. 
He  has  the  best  wishes of the  Standard. 
Indeed we think the Democrats  of  western 
Michigan are a unit in hoping he may get  a 
consulship—provided it is far  enough  away 
from Michigan.

A Western  liquor  dealer,  a  short  time 
ago,  advertised as  follows:  “Having  exper­
ienced a change of heart  through  the bless­
ed efforts of Brother B. and  Sister S.,  I de­
sire  to  state  to  my  numerous  friends  and 
patrons that at the end of the current month 
I shall retire from the accursed liquor traffic 
forever.  Until that time my  stock on hand 
will  be  offered  at  greatly  reduced  rates. 
Come one, come all!”

Representative Post’s  bill  amending  the 
present law relative to the  sale  of  intoxi­
cating liquors so that  it  shall be  unlawful 
for any person,  except  druggists,  to  keep 
for sale any  liquors  in  any  grocery, meat 
market or store-room,  or room where gener­
al merchandise is sold, came up in the House 
on third reading  last  Friday,  and  was de­
feated for want of votes,  only 47 ayes being 
recorded against 17 nays.

Collecting old boots and shoes and selling 
them from 5 to 15 cents a pair to wall paper 
factories is the regular “vocation” of  scores 
of men and women and boys in  "New  York 
city. 
It is  said  “calfskin  boots  bring  the 
best price; while cowhide ones are not taken 
at any figure.  These boots  and  shoes  are 
first soaked in several waters to get the dirt 
off,  and then the nails and  threads  are  re­
moved and the leather  is  ground  up into a 
fine pulp.  Then it is pressed upon a ground 
of heavy paper,  which is to be  used in  the 
manufacture of embossed  leather.”

Paper slippers are the latest form in which 
paper  is  introduced  in  new  inventions. 
An Englishman  has  patented a  system of 
manufacturing  slippers,  sandals, and  other 
coverings  for  the  feet out of  paper.  Pa­
per pulp, or papier mache,  is  employed  for 
the upper,  which is moulded  to the  desired 
form and size,  and a sole is  provided  made 
of paper or  pasteboard, 
leather  board,  or 
other suitable paper material.  The paper is 
creased,  embossed or perforated at the instep 
and sides, which renders them  pliable,  and 
prevents their cracking while in use.

An old French  shoemaker  who  boasted 
that nothing could frighten him, was put to 
the test by two  youths.  One  of  them pre­
tended to be  dead,  and  the  other,  going to 
the shoemaker,  induced  him  to  sit up with 
the supposed corpse.  The  shoemaker  was 
in a hurry with some work he had promised 
to have completed  the next morning,  so he 
took his tools and leather  and  began work­
ing beside the corpse.  About  12  o’clock at 
night a cup of black coffee was brought him 
to keep him  awake.  He  drank it  and re­
sumed his work.  About 1 o’clock, the coffee 
having exhilarated him, he commenced sing­
ing a lively  tune,  keeping  time  with  his 
hammer.  Suddenly  the  corpse  arose,  and 
exclaimed in a hollow voice,  “When a man 
is in the presence of  death  he  should  not 
sing!”  The shoemaker  started,  then,  sud­
denly dealt the corpse a  lively  blow on the 
head,  exclaiming,  at the same time,  “When 
a man is dead  he  should  not  speak.” 
It 
was the last time  any one  tried to frighten 
the shoemaker.

ments--Other Matters.

Cant  H ook  Corners,  June 5,  1885. 

Editor of The Tradesman:

D ear  Sir—Alas,  that the day  should ev­
er  come, when I should see Soliman brought 
to his  domicile in  sections.  He and  Bilson 
met, fought and  conquered.  When  I  saw 
Soliman,  bleeding from his many wounds,  I 
fainted,  and  am  still  in  my  own boudoir 
with a wet cloth tied  around  my  forehead. 
On  account  of  the  tremendous  excitement 
that this affray between two  of  our  promi­
nent citizens has created,  business  and  the 
styles are rather quiet.  There is a new es- 
tablishmentfstarted here.  Jerusia Spilkins, 
the old  maid,  has  started  a  dress  making 
shop.  Of course,  everybody knmvs that Bil­
son furnished the capital to buy  her  outfit, 
which consists of a second-hand sewing ma­
chine,  a three-legged table,  one whole and a 
broken chair,  three  empty  flower  pots,  a 
blind cat,  and  some  fashion  plates  of  the 
time of Noah.

On  account  of  having  nothing  else  to 
write about,  I will describe my boudoir,  the 
apartment  where  1  repose  and  meditate. 
Imagine,  if you please,  a room 10 by 12, two 
windows facing  on  Damlongue  street  and 
a door just opposite,  the windows filled with 
flowers of the loveliest kinds,  a sweet  sing­
ing canary bird hanging over each  array  of 
flowers ; ajbeautiful 40c three-ply ingrain car­
pet,  in varigated colors, on the  floor.  The 
north side of the  room  is  occupied  by  my 
bed,  an elegant single, imitation walnut bed­
stead.  A commode,  a bureau given me by 
my mother  twenty  years  ago,  one  of  the 
good old-fashioned  kind,  solid  ash,  seven 
feet high,  all"drawers,  and full of bugs. 
I 
have also a sofa,  two  rockers,  two  chairs, 
and one  easy  chair,  upholstered  in  green 
plush,  which just becomes  my  complexion. 
On the walls are  lmpg  many  fine  etchings 
which I have cut  from Harpers and 'Leslies; 
but the center of all attractions  is the grand 
oil chromo,  which hangs  opposite  the  win­
dows. 
It came with  “Hobb's Famous soap, 
10c a bar,  3 for 25c,  for sale at all  first-class 
grocers.” 
It represents a beginner in a roll­
er rink.  In the back ground are a lot of peo­
ple laughing; in the fore ground is a  young 
man dressed in the heighth  of  fashion,  his 
body forming an angle,  of  which  the  part 
that generally is  used to  sit  on  forms  the 
apex of the angle.  The idea is that he has 
not yet reached bed rock,  his  hat  in  some 
way has got there first and if  he  ever  does 
conre down he is going to knock  everlasting 
smash out of that C0c plug.

I understand that Sirooks is going  to  sue 
Bilson for 350,000 damages,  for  aggravated 
assault with intent to do bodily injury,  loss 
of time, and general misdemeanors, including 
arson,  etc.  As I will  have  to  attend  the 
store during Soliman’s  "absence at  court,  it 
may be that I can’t write much on  fashions 
next week. 
If  we  win  that suit,  we will 
begin to discount all bills  sure.

Yours,  hopefully,

Meiiitable  Sprigos,  F.  M.
The  Grocery  Market.

Business has been fairly good,  and collec­
tions are easy.  Sugars  have  declined,  but 
are firm,  in consequence of an increased ex­
port demand.  Kerosene  is  still  selling  at 
10c for water white and 8}4c  for  legal test, 
at which prices every  dealer  would do well 
to lay in good stocks.

The  local  brokers  have  received  samples 
of new Japan teas,  direct  from  Yokohoma. 
The samples are fully up to the standard  of 
previous years, but the prices are most too ele­
vated  for  the  Michigan  trade,  as the  first 
picking is very choice and limited in quanity.

Good W ords Unsolicited.

Griswold, Campbell & Co., hardware, Middle- 

ville:  “A valuable paper.”

W.  W.  Allen,  general  dealer,  Watervliet: 

“The Tradesman Is a good one.”

H.  E.  Hawkins,  druggist, Wayland:  “It is 
first class in  every  respect,  and  deserves  the 
patronage of all business men.”

M. A. Knox, general  dealer, Tustin:  “Valu­
I  would  not  do  without  The 

able  paper. 
Tradesman for three times the  cost.”

L.  M.  Lester,  general  dealer,  Saranac:  “I 
think afc much of  the  weekly  receipt  of The 
Tradesman as a call from an old friend.”

Efforts have been made in Italy  to  accli­
matize the tea  plant.  Prof.  Beccari,  who 
has been to India for the purpose of investi­
gating the growth of  tea,  is of  the opinion 
that there is no reason  why  it  should  not 
succeed in Italy,  if the plants and  seeds are 
brought from a climate  similar  to  that  of 
the peninsula,  for the fact that  it  grows in 
the open  air  in  the  vicinity  of  Florence 
proves that it  is  to  some  extent  a  hardy 
plant.

At St.  Louis there is a large daily demand 
for spring wheat by millers, who are all now 
using it for mixing with  winter  heat.  The 
latter is now becoming  so  scarce  as  to be 
relatively high in price, which fact furnishes 
a strong argument in favor of using the oth­
er,  even in sections where the winter grades 
are not yet exhausted.

“I am afraid this  depression  in  tobacco 
will ruin  me.”  “Indeed,  why  I  thought 
you were engaged in raising cabbages.”  “I 
am,  and that’s just why I’m kicking.”

Plain slippers  are  again  worn  trimmed 

with black ribbon bows.

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fohows:

Green__ $  ft  6
Part cured...  7
Full cured 
  8
Dry hides and 
k ip s...........   8

H ID E S.

Calf skins, green
or cured__
Deacon skins,
$  piece.......20

@ 654 
@ 854
@ 754 
@12 
S H E E P  P EL TS.

@10
@50

Shearlings...............................................10  @12
Lambskins............................................. 15  @25
Old wool, estimated washed ^ ft........  @20
Tallow......................................................  @ 6

Fine washed $  ft 20@22|Unwashed............ 
Coarse washed...16@18|

W OOL.

2-3

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^ ^ ^ 22^g2T (^ iant8fcitron?^

Declined—Sugars.
These  prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

2 40
12 00

CANNED F IS H

A X LE  GREASE.

B A K IN G   PO W D ER.

CANNED FRUITS.

'anoy  Whisk.
C ommonWhisk.

  45|Aretie 1 ft cans 
  75 Arctic 5 ft cans 
BLU IN G .

.. doz. 
25
..doz. 
45
. doz. 
35
.. doz. 
65
gross  4 00
..........   8 00
.........  12 00
..........   2 00
...............  3  00
.................4 50
2  Hurl...............175
.100

promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s................   2 80iParagon  ..................1  80
Diamond................ 1 75 Paragan25ft pails.1  20
Modoc.....................1 65|
Arctic 5-6 ft cans 
Arctic 54 ft cans 
Arctic 54 ft cans.  .1  40|
Dry, No. 2........... .......
Dry, No. 3..................
Liquid, 4 oz,...............
Liquid, 8 oz.................
Arctic 4 oz.......................
Arctic 8  oz.....................
Arctic 16 oz.....................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box 
“ 
“
Arctic No. 2 
“ 
“
Arctic No. 3 
BROOM
No. 1 Carpet...........2 501
No. 2 Carpet...........2 25|!
No. 1  Par lor Gem.. 2 75 
No. lH url..............2 00
.......1 40
Clams, 1 ft  standards.........................
.......2 65
Clams, 2 ft  standards.........................
.......2 20
Clam Chowder,  3 ft............................
.......1  10
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards...........
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards............. ....  1 90
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled........... .......  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled............. .......1 05
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic.............................. .......1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft star................................. .......2 25
Lobsters, 2 ft star................................. .......3  10
Mackerel, 1ft  fresh standards.......... .......1  00
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards.......... .......6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft........ .......3 25
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard.................... .......3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..........................
.1  55
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river...............
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river............... .......2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento.................... .......1  35
Sardines, domestic 54s......................... ....... 
6
Sardines,  domestic  54s....................... .... 
11
Sardines,  Mustard  54s......................... .......  10
Sardines,  imported  54s....................... .......  13
Trout, 3 ft  brook...................................
Apples, 3 ft standards......................... .......  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie....... .......2 50
Blackberries, standards..................... .......1  05
Cherries,  red  standard....................... .......  90
Damsons................................................ .......1  00
..................... .......1 40
Egg Plums, standards 
Green  Gages, standards 2 ft............... .......1  40
Peaches. Extra Yellow....................... .......2 40
Peaches, standards............................1 75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds................................. .......1  50
Pineapples,  Erie..................t .............. .......2 20
Pineapples, standards......................... .......1 70
Quinces ................................................. .......1 45
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg.......... .......1  SO
CANNED  FRTTTTS— CA LIFORN1
Apricots, Lusk’s.. .2 40!Pears...........
Egg Plums.............2  50| Quinces.......
Grapes................... 2  50j Peaches  __
Green Gages......... 2 50!
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.......................
Beans, Lima,  standard.......................
Beans, Stringless, Erie..  ..................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.............
Com,  Trophy.......................................
Peas, French.........................................
Peas, Marrofat, standard...................
Peas, Beaver.........................................
Peas, early small, sifted.....................
Pumpkin, 3 lb Golden.
Suc<potash, standard.
Tonlatoes, Troi>hy..
Bos1
Bak
Runikies’"!!.""
Gre<an Rio........ 9@i:3  ¡Roastiad Mar.... 17@18
GreianJava....... 17@2'7  RoastiadMocha.28@30
Greian Mocha... 23@2i5  Roastied Mex.. ,17@20
id  Rio... .  9@16
Roasted Rio..... 10@1;
Roasted Java ..23@30  IPackatge  Goodf3  @1324
0 95
72 fc>ot Jute ... .. 1  2iï  172foot Cotton.
60 ft>ot Jute.... .  1  01[)  60 foot Cotton.Ü .2 00
40 F<aot Cotton..... 1  50  150 foot Cotton....1  75
...  75
Bloaters, Smoked Yiirmouth.
Cod, whole....
... 454@5
Cod..Boneless..
.. ,6@7
Cod, pickled, 54 libis
...3 50
...  12
H alibut...........
Herring 54  bbl:
...2 50
Herring,  Scaled..........................
.18@20 
Herring,  Holland.......................
.  65 
.5 00 
Mackerel, No. 1,54 bbls.............
Mackerel, No. 1. 12 ft  kits........
.1  00 
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  54  bbls.
6 25 
Mackerel, No. 1, shoi-e,  kits__
.1  00
Shad, 54 b b l.................................
Trout, No.  1, 54  bbls..................
Trout, No. 1,10  ft  kits...............
White, No. 1,54 bb ls..................
White, Family, 54 bbls...............
White, No. 1 ,10 ft kits...............
White, No. 1,12 ft kits...............

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

HiDA GE.

F IS H .

Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1  00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................   @1 35
Horseradish,  54 pints............................  @1  00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1  30
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 54 pints...........  ............  @2 20
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........  @4  85
“  Cameo.......................  @3 30
“  Monday....................  @3  45
“  Mascot.....................   @3 45
“  Superior, 601 ft bars  @3  60
@4 05

Galvanic.......................................... 

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“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

SOAP.

Ground. 

SPICES.

Whole.

Pepper............... 16@25 ¡Pepper..................  @19
Allspice..............lfc@15i Allspice................   8@10
Cinnamon.......... 18@30|Cassia....................  @10
Cloves  ................ 15@25j Nutmegs  ............ 60@65
Ginger............... 16@20 Cloves  ..................   @18
Mustard..............15@30
Cayenne............ 25@35l
Kingsford’s, 1 lb pkgs.,  pure..................  @654
3ft> pkgs.,  pure..................  @654
1 !b pkgs., Silver  Gloss__  @8
6 lb pkgs., 
“  __   @8y2
1 lb pkgs., Corn  Starch___   @8
(Bulk) Ontario..................   @5

s t a r c h .

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SUGARS.

TEA S.

SY RUPS.

TOBACCO—F IN E  C U T - IN   P A IL S .

Cut  Loaf.................................................  ©  7%
Cubes......................................................  @  724
Powdered...............................................  @714
Granulated,  Standard..........................   @  71g
Confectionery A ....................................  @ 654
Standard A ..............................................  @  6%
Extra C, White.......................................  @ 6
i Extra C....................................................   @5%
Fine  C......................................................  @5U
Yellow C...................................................  @  514
DarkC......................................................  @ 5
Corn,  Barrels......................................... 
28
30
Corn, 54 bbls............................................  
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................   @  32
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 60
Corn, 454 gallon kegs.............................   @1 45
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  23@  35
Pure Sugar Drips........................ 54 bbl  30®  38
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1  96
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............y2 bbl  @  85
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  ©1  85
Japan ordinary.............................................22@25
Japan fair to good........................................30@35
J apan fine.......................................................40@50
Japan dust.....................................................15@20
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder..................................................35® 50
Oolong.....................................................33@55@60
Congo.............................................................25@30
Dark AmericanEagle671 Sweet  Rose............... 45
The Meigs................. 64 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
Red  Bird...................50 Atlas............................35
State  Seal................. 60 j Royal Game.................38
Prairie Flower......... 65  Mule Ear..................... 65
Climber.....................62  Fountain.....................74
I ndian Queen...........60  Old Congress...............64
Bull  Dog...................60jGood Luck.................. 52
Crown  Leaf..............66| Blaze Away.................35
Matchless................. 65|Hair Lifter.................. 30
Hiawatha................. 67: Governor................... 60
Globe  .........................70 Fox’s Choice............   63
May Flower.............. 70Î Medallion.
Hero 
Old  Abe.
Spread Eagle...........................................
Blue  Peter.............................................
Big Five Center......................................
White Bear..............................................
E. C...........................................................
Red  Fox...................................................
Big Drive.................................................
Seal of Grand Rapids............................
Durham...................................................
Patrol......................................................
Jack Rabbit............................................
Snowflake...............................................
Chocolate Cream....................................
Woodcock  ..............................................
Knigntsof  Labor..................................
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................
Black Bear..............................................
King 
.............   ......................................
Old Five Cent Times..............................
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft.............................
Parrot  ....................................................
Old Tim e.................................................
Tramway.................................................
Glory  ......................................................
Silver  Coin..............................................
Buster  [Dark].......................................
Black Prince [Dark].............................
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................
Climax.....................................................
Hold F ast................................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................
Nobby Twist...........................................
Nimrod.....................................................
Acorn ......................................................
Crescent .................................................
Black  X ...................................................
Black  Bass..............................................
Spring......................................................
Cray lin g .................................................
Mackinaw................................................
Horse Shoe..............................................
Hair Lifter..............................................

.45| Sweet Owen......

.......... 49

CHISCOLATE.

,..  90
...1 00

Lemon Vanilla. D. and D., black.

.36[ Germsin  Sweet
.38 Vienna Sweet ..........23
CO FFEE.

@38
@38
@35
@35
@42
@48
@50
@46
@46
@48
@46
©46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@37
@46
@38
@62
@46
@38
@48
@46
@50
@36
@36
@36
@46
@46
@46
@46
@51
@37
@46
@46
@46
@44
@3o
@40
@46
@46
@45
@44
@36
...................................  @36
1  40 McAlpin’s Green Shield.......................  @46
Jennings’2 oz............................78  doz.l 00
2 50 Ace  High, black ...................................  @35
4 o z...................................... 1 50
4 00 Sailors'  Solace..
...................................  @46
50
6 oz......................................
8 oz...................................... 3 50
5 00
No. 2 Taper....................... 1 25
1 50
SMOKING
....................... 1 75
No.  4  “ 
3 00 Old Tar................ __ 40 ¡Conqueror............
4 50
54 pint  round....................
7 50 Arthur’s  Choice. ... .22jGrayling...........
Q00 15 00 Red Fox............... __ 26l Seal Skin.........
1 
“ ..............................
No.  8.................................. 3 00
4 25 Flirt..................... __ 28|Rob Roy.................
No. 10................................. 4 25
6 00 Gold Dust........... __ 261 Uncle  Sam............
Gold  Blonk____ ... .301 fiiimbermnn  .
4 54@5
Seal of G rand Rapids  1 Railroad Boy........
(cloth).......... __ 25 Mountain Rose__
©754
@854 Tramway, 3 oz.. __ 40 Home Comfort__
@16 Ruby, cut Cavendish 35! Old Rip..................
@28
... ,15iSeal of North Caro
424 @5 Peck’s Sun........ __ 18| 
lina, 2  oz............
12@13 Miners and Puddlers.28iSeal of North Caro
@1 70 Morning  Dew... __ 251 
lina, 4oz..............
5 @554 Chain.................. __ 221 Seal of North  Caro
10© 13 Peerless  ............ __ 25| 
lina, 8oz..............
@954 Standard........... __ 22|Seal of North  Caro
@ 924 Old Tom............. __ 21 
lina, 16 oz boxes.
@11 Va Tom & Jerry__ ....24 Big Deal................
* / @ 854 Joker.................. __ 25| Apple Jack............
@2 50 Traveler........... __ 35lKing Bee, longcut
@3 20 Maiden............... __ 25|Milwaukee  Prize.
@4 25 Pickwick  Club.. __ 401 Rattler..................
@2 50 Nigger Head__ __ 26|Windsor cut plug.
©2 30 Hoffand............. __ 22|Zero  ......................
German............. __ 16l Holland Mixed___
.  854 Solid Comfort... __ 30|Golden Age..........
Red Clover........ __ 32 Mail  Pouch...........
..1  75 Long Tom.......... __ 30'Knights of Lator.
..1  50 National........... __ 26 Free Cob Pipe.......
2
..3 60
..2 25 Globe.................. __ 21! Hiawatha................. . 23
...1   10 Mule Ear........... __ 23; Old Congress............ .23
.1 60

Apples, Michigan...............................
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls................
Apples, Dried, evap., box..................
Cherries, dried,  pitted.......................
Citron...................................................
Currants..............................................
Peaches, dried  ...................................
Pineapples,  standards.....................
Prunes, Turkey, new.........................
Prunes, French, 50 ft  boxes.............
Raisins, Valencias..............................
Raisins,  Layer Valencias................ .
Raisins,  Oridaras...............................
Raisins,  Sultanas...............................
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels.................
Raisins, London Layers....................
Raisins, Dehesias...............................
Raisins, California Layers...............
Raisins, California Muscatels..........
Water White........10 
| Legal  Test.
Grand  Haven,  No.  9, square............
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square...........
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor........
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor........
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round...........
Oshkosh, No.  2....................................
Oshkosh, No.  8.
Swedish...............
Richardson’s No. 
Richardson’s No. 
Richardson’s No. 
Richardson’s No. 
Richardson’s No.
Black  Strap.............................................14@16@18
Porto  Rico.....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 38@42
New Orleans, choice.....................................48@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

23
32
■10
26
28
95
38
18
25
55
48
46
41
40
27
24
22
24
28
25
16
16
75
30
27

2c. less in four butt lots.

Tim e.................. __ 26i

square, 
. 
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. 

Boss  ..................

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K E R O S EN E  O IL .

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FRUITS

MATCHES.

SHORTS.

CIGA RS.

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54 bbls. 3c extra.

OATM EAL.

do 

R IC E .

PIC K L E S .

SA LERA TUS.

Steel  cut..............  .6 00¡Quaker, 48  fts....... 2 35
Steel Cut, 54 bbls.. .3 15 Quaker, 60 fts....... 2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 60|Quaker bbls___ *_6 50
Choice in barrels med.............  
.................. 4 50
Choice in 54 
......................................2  75
P IP E S .
Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........   @2 25
Imported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........   @1  85
American  T. D.......................................   @  90
Good Carolina....... 6  ¡Java  .................. 654@654
Prime Carolina.......654 P atna........................6
Choice Carolina......7  Rangoon............5y4@624
Good Louisiana......534|Broken....................... 334
DeLand’s pure....... 554|Dwight’s .................... 554
Church’s  ................ 554 Sea  Foam................. 554
Taylor’s  G. M.........5J4iCap Sheaf...................55a.
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
2 25
28 Pocket.................................................  
2 20
100 3 ft pockets.......................................  
2 45
Saginaw F ine.........................'...............  
90
Diamond  C.............................................. 
1 60
Standard  Coarse....................................  
1 55
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
80
2 80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........ 
80
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags............... 
25
Rock, bushels......................................... 
28
Parisian, 54  pints..................................   @2 00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green.............................  @  90
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1  70

SA UCES.

SALT.

 

 

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VIN EGA R.

@60 00
@60 00
@50 00
@50 00
@35 00
 
@25 00
@20 00

Michigan  Chief....................................... 
Roma......................................................... 
American  ............................  
La Industria............................................ 
Parker.....................................................  
Promenade.............................................  
Old Judge..................................  
 
Pamina  .................................................... 
Comforter................................................. 
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......  @  75
Maccoboy...............................   @ 55
Gail & Ax’ 
Rappee....................................   @ 35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..............................  @ 45
Lotzbeck  ...................................................  @1 30
Pure  Cider..........8@12 White Wine..........   8@12
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
American............................. 
60
Barley...................................................... 
@3
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
100
do  No.  2.......................................  
1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
8 00
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans...............  15@25
Candies, Star__ ;....................................  @1354
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @80
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
..................  @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@35
Hominy, $   bbl.......................................   @4 00
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails.................................  @454
Peas, Green Bush..................................   @135
Peas, Split prepared..............................  @354
Powder, Keg...........................................  @3 50
Powder,  54 Keg......................................  @1 93

F elix..........................  

M ISCELLANEOUS.

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  Quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................   6  @ 8
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  854@ 9
Dressed  Hogs..........................................   554@ 6
Mutton,  carcasses..................................   654© 7
Veal..........................................................   7  @  8
Pork Sausage..........................................  8  @ 9
Bologna....................................................  9  @10
Chickens.................................................. 14  @15
Turkeys  .................................................   @15
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CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

do 
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Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes............................  954@10
..............................10  @1054
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails......................................10 @1054
Royal, 200 ft bbls........................................ 954@9«4
Extra, 251b  pails........................................ll@lri,
Extra, 200 ft bbls........................................ 10@10i4
French Cream, 25 ft pails..................... 1254@13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.........................................13
Broken, 25 ft pails.....................................ll@1154
Broken, 200 ft  bbls............................, ............ 10}-j
Lemon  Drops............................ 
13
Sour Drops.........................!!!!..!!!!!!!!!!.. 14
Peppermint  Drops........  !!!!” !!!!!!!!.'..! .15
Chocolate Drops................. " !!" !!!!" !!!  16
H M Chocolate  Drops........." ....!.!.!..” .! 20
Gum  D rops.............................................  
]'io
20
Licorice Drops..................... 
 
..!!" " .................12
A B   Licorice  Drops.. 
Lozenges, plain......................................  
J5
Lozenges,  printed............................. 
jg
Imperials...................................... 
jg
 
M ottoes.................................................. 
15
Cream  Bar.................................. ’ " ...............
jg
Molasses Bar...........................................  
Caramels....................................   
29
Hand Made Creams.................................. 
20
Plain  Creams................................................... j~
Decorated  Creams.................................. 111*111* 20
String Rock..............................................11111111 *15
Burnt Almonds........................ ! ." ! ! " ."   22
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 15
Lozenges, plain in  pails........................12}4@13
Lozenges, plain in  bbls........................   @1154
Lozenges, printed in pails.................... 1354@14
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................1254@13
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................   @13
Gum  Drops  in pails................................. 7J4@8
Gum Drops, in bbls..........................  
654
Moss Drops, in  pails............................. i054@1154
Moss Drops, in bbls........................  
9
Sour Drops, in  pails................ . .."................13
Imperials, in  pails................................ 13©  14
Imperials  in bbls.........................." ‘"  @12
2 00@4 OO
Bananas,  Aspinwall.................. 
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo........!  @4  50
Oranges, California.....................
Lemons,  choice..........
4 00@4 50 
Lemons, fancy
ft....
Figs,  layers new,
do  ..........
Dates, frails 
d o ........
Dates, 54 do 
Dates, skin.............................
Dates, l/2  skin.........................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^  ft...
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft__
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.
Pine Apples, $}  doz...............
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw 
ft...........
do  ...........
Choice 
Fancy 
do  ...........
Choice White, Va.do  ...........
Fancy H P..  Va  do  ......... "
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft... 
do  ...
Brazils, 
Pecons, 
do  ...
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ...
Walnuts, Grenobles  d o ... 
“  ...
Walnuts, French 

8}4@ 9 
@ 7
6  @ ¿54
2 25@2 50
455 
@ 5
554@  554 
5® 554 
6  (© 654
....  18@185s 
—  
fc@ 854 
... 
9@12
— 1254@14 
— 1254@15 
— 1154@1254

4 50@5 OO @11 ©  4 @ 6 @ 455

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PROVISIONS.

P O R K   IN   BARRELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PL A IN .

do.  medium.................... 
do. 

quote  as follows:
A. Webster, packer, short  cut....................12 50
Clear back, short cut.................................... 14 00
Extra Family Clear........................ .. !!!. ..'. 12 50
Clear, A. Webster  packer........... 13 50
Standard Clear, the  best...................... !
!l4 50
Extra Clear,  heavy.................................  " 13 75
Boston Clear...................................13  75
DRY  SALT  MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
624
69J
light....................................  
64i
Long Clear Backs, 500  ft  cases.............  
714
Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases............. 
754
Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases__  
754
Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.............  
8
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........ 
6%
Bellies, extra quality, 300 ft cases........ 
7
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases........  
75.;
Boneless  Hams................................................ 10
Boneless Shoulders..................... 
7
Breakfast  Bacon........................ !!!!!!!!!."  834
Dried Beef, extra quality.......... ! ! . 1 1
Dried Beef, Ham pieces.............................. J 254.
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle......... . . . . .  654
Tierces  ....................................................  
7
30 and 50 ft Tubs........................ . . . . . . .' 
714
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases........ .. '.'.'.'.'.I 
714
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
754
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
8
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case........................774
10ft Pails. 6 in a case........................................7^
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 11  25
Boneless,  extra.............................................. 15 06
Pork  Sausage...................................................  7
Ham  Sausage..........................  
Tongue  Sausage..............................".!!!.  10
Frankfort  Sausage........................................ .10
Blood  Sausage.......................... .'.!.!!."!."."  6*4
Bologna, straight..................... !!!.!!."..".!!!  ek
Bologna,  thick..................................... 
654
Head  Cheese...................................................... 654
In half barrels.................................................  3 35
In quarter barrels...................................  

SAUSAGE— FRESH AND SMOKED.

LARD IN   T IN  PA IL S .

B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

P IG S ’  FEET.

LARD.

1954

 

 

1 75

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Russets are firm at $2.50@$3.  Choice 
Baldwins  are scarce, and difficult to obtain  at 
any price.

Asparagus—40@50c  doz. bunches.
Beans—Choice picked are  dull at $1.40@$1.50 

$  bu.

Butter—Michigan creamery  is  in  moderate 
demand at 16c.  Dairy  is  slow  sale  at 14c for 
tubs and 1254c for jars.

Clover Seed—No shipping demand. 
Cabbages—New stock is in fair demand at $4 

$  crate of 50 heads.

Cheese—New stock is  abundant at 8@10c for 

full cream.  Old stock is about played out.

Cider—12c ]8 gal. for  common  sweet  and 18c 

for sand refined.

@57 00

I size.  Wax beans, $2.50@$3  box.

Cucumbers—10@50c  doz.
Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 
I quarters, 4@454c.
Eggs—Very  plentiful,  with  moderate  de­
mand.  Local jobbers hold their stocks at 1254c. 
Green Onions—25@30c  doz. bunches.
Green Beans—$1@$1.50 
box, according  to 
Green Peas—$1.25 5P bu.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 13@14e. 
Hay—Bailed, $13@$14.
Lettuce— 15c $  ft.
Onions—Bermudas command $2.50 f! crate. 
Pieplant—3c $   ft.
@35 00
Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c ]? ft. 
Potatoes—No  local  dealers  are  handling 
Poultry—Very scarce.  Fowls, 9®10c.  Chick­
Radishes—25@30c  doz.  bunches.
Spinach—75c $  bu.
@ 44
Strawberries—$2@$3 $  crate of 24 quarts, 
f  Turnips—25c ]? bu.
Timothy—No  shipping  demand.  Choice  is 
worth $2 $  bu.

them in a jobbing way.
ens, 12@13c.  Turkeys, 14c.

G R A IN S  AND  M IL L IN G  PR O D U CTS.

Wheat—No change.  The  city millers pay as 
follows:  Lancaster,  94;  Fulse,  92c;  Clawson, 
92c.
Corn—Jobbing generally at 5Sc in 100 bu. lots 
and 55c in carlots.
Oats—White, 45c in small lots and 41c@4154 in 
carlots.
Rye—56c  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 
Flour—Higher.  Fancy Patent,  $6.25 5P  bbl. 
in  sacks  and $6.50 in wood.  Straight,  $5.25  <6? 
bbl. in sacks and $5.50 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $  ton.  Bran, $14 
ton.  Ships, $15$ ton.  Middlings, $16$ ton. 

cwt.

Corn and Oats, $22 

ton.

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

FR ESH   F IS H .

F. J. D. Selects..................................................... 35
Standards  ............................................................30
Mackinaw Trout.................................... 
 
W hitefish...........................................................  654
Black Bass..........  ............................................   8
Run  Fish...........................................................   5
Rock Bass..........................................................,5
P erch................................................................   4
Duck Bill Pike..................................................  5
Wall-eyed  Pike................................................  6
Smoked White Fish..........................................10
Smoked Trout....................................................10
Smoked Sturgeon............................................. 10

 

654

Big R apids B usiness Bits.

S.  B.  St.  Clair is soon to begin the manu­

facture of shingles at Pickerel Lake.

The Big Rapids Sash and Blind Manufac­
turing Co.  employs sixty workmen and does 
a thriving business.

G.  W.  Yan Buren,  formerly proprietor of 
the Montreal House,  has  assumed  posses­
sion of the Brackett House.

The Stimson planing mill, lately  purchas- 
| od by G. W.  Crawford,  has been overhauled 
and put in successful operation.

Archie  Miller,  prescription  clerk  for A. 
H. Webber & Co.,  will engage  in  the  drug 
business at  Chippewa  Lake  the  latter  part 
of this month.

L.  S. Baker,  cashier of the Northern Nat­
ional Bank, and Big Rapids’ most successful 
lumberman,  is soon  to  remove  to  Chicago, 
in consequence of poor health.

Percy  Clark,  who  was  lately  with  the 
Peninsular  Club  of  Grand  Rapids,  is now 
keeping books for J.  G. MeElweo & Co.,  to 
the entire satisfaction of that firm.

Herald:  E.  A.  Stowe,  the  wide-awake, 
pushing  and  successful  publisher  of  The 
Michigan Tradesm an,  was in  town  Fri­
day  in  the  interest  of  his  well conducted 
weekly.

Mr. J. B. Beaumont,  who for  some  years 
past has lumbered successfully in  the vicin­
ity of Lumberton,  is closing up his business 
and offers his mill for sale.  Mr.  Beaumont 
intends to spend the rest of his days  in  the 
beautiful Garden City, San Jose, Cal., where 
he has property on which he will erect a fine 
house,  the  plan  of  which  is  now  being 
drawn by Geo. Fairfield.

TRADE  MARK

O. H. RICHMOND & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

Eictaotfs Family Medicines.

RICHMOND’S  LIVER  ELIXIR.

the  market,  50 cents.

The  best selling liver  and  blood  medicine  in 
Richmond’s Cubeb Cream,
Richmond’s Ague Cure,

Richmond’s  Cough Cure, 
Richmond’s Easy Pills,

Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer.
Retailers,  please  order  of  your  jobbersAn 
Grand Rapids, Chicago or Detroit.  If your job­
ber does not handle our goods, we will fill your 
orders.  Pills and Health Restorer can be sent 
by mail.  141 South Division St., Grand Rapids.

M ISC EL L A N E O U S.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  insertec 
in this eoiumn at the rate of 25 cents per week 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  eacl 
additional word.  Advance payment.
AT7ANTED—A merchant to engage in gener-
al trade at Elmira.  The  country round­
M 
about is settling up fast, and the place  affords 
an excellent location for the right  party.
A  NYONE wanting  a  clean  hardware  stock, 
xx. 
located on one of thebest business streets 
of  Grand  Rapids,  would  do  well to  call at 17 
South  Division  street.  Stock  will  inventory 
about  $4,000.  Terms,  cash.  Reason  for sell­
ing, owners have other business. 

90
U  SALE—Our  stock  of  drugs, boots  an< 
. 
shoes, dry goods, groceries and hardware 
Also  brick  store  building,  23x75,  warehouse 
dwelling,  stable,  good  well  and  cistern  am 
one  acre  of  land.  Will  sell the buildings  fo 
$2,500 and the stock at cost.  A.  Young & Sons 
Orange, Mich. 
90*
SITUATION  WANTED—By young  man  in  a 
kD  grocery or general  store,  four  years’  ex­
perience.  Best  of  references.  Address Box 
96, Fremont, Mich. 
rpEN  MORE—I  have  obtained  fifteen  dogs 
through my advertisement in last  week's 
1 
Tradesman,  and  I  still  want  ten  more.  No 
choice as to breeds or age.  Geo. F. Owen.

91*

Are Yoa Going lo 
M ie a Store, Pan-

This  Baking  Powder makes the  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits. 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY IT  and he convinced. 
Prepared only by the
Arctic  Manufacturing  Co.

Tbarbware.

L acing Belts.

The market is full of devices for fastening 
the ends of belts,  but  there  seems to be no 
diminution 
in  the  importation  of  Patna 
hides and the use of  leather  lacings.  Lac­
ings are absolutely  necessary  in  remaking 
once used belts,  as after  the  belt  has  been 
oiled the  cement  ceases to  “take,” and the 
riveting  of  scarfs  is  very  unsatisfactory. 
But in many instances the  butting  of  belts 
is preferably done  with  lacings.  The  belt 
awl—or awls,  for there are several  patterns 
—as generally in use,  is not  properly shap­
ed. 
It depends on a point  to start  a  hole, 
and enlarges the hole ly the larger  round or 
lozenge-shaped  section.  This 
tears  and 
crowds the fibers of  the  leather,  and  tends 
to cockle the belt.  The  belt  awl should be 
patterned  after  a  mortising  chisel,  except 
perhaps that the edge need not be of the en­
tire width of the  blade,  and  the blade may 
be slightly curved for ease in  handling.  A 
sharp chisel edge will  cut  a  clean  hole,  or 
rather a slit,  which may  be  opened  for the 
passage of the lacing,  and  not  being  a vio­
lent disturbance of the leather,  the  slit will 
close firmly around the lacing  when  it is in 
place.  The temporary spreading of the hole 
crosswise may be made by the  thicker cross 
section of  the  awl,  corresponding  to ¡¡The 
flattened lozenge of the mortising chisel.  In 
butting belts,  however, the first row of holes 
should be made with  the  punch,  and  a'tri- 
angular punch is  better  than  the  common 
round punch,  one of the faces of  the  trian­
gle to be in line with  the  cross  cut of  the 
belt.

Unless absolutely necessary to  “take  up” 
or mend a belt in  working  hours,  it is best 
not to run it off the  pulleys  for  this  pur­
pose.  It is always mere guesswork to know 
how much to cut out of a slack belt when it 
is off its pulleys,  and it is not uncommon to 
have the job to  do  over,  sometimes  more 
than once.  Taking up belts should  be  de­
ferred, if possible,  to a nooning or the shut­
ting down of  the  works.  Then  a  pair of 
clamps should be used  to  bring  the  open 
ends of the belt together while the belt is on 
its pulleys.  There are clamps for  this pur­
pose that do not require the use of wrenches; 
the jaws are always  in  line  (parallel)  dis­
pensing with the use of  the  straight  edge, 
and they are  actuated by a  crank.  Except 
for  very  wide  belts,  these  clamps  can  be 
handled  by one  person.  By  their  use  the 
exact tension of the belt  can be secured,  its 
perfect  line  preserved,  and  a  clean  joint 
made with the belt in the handiest  possible 
position for working on it.

C utting M ahogany in  Mexico.

In Mexico the season for cutting  the  ma­
hogany usually  commences  about  August. 
Gangs of Indian borers  are  employed,  con­
sisting of two to fifty each,  under the direc­
tion of a caption.  Each  gang  has  also a 
cazador, or “huntsman,”  whose  duty  it  is 
to search  the  trackless  forest  for  suitable 
trees to be felled and  to  guide  the  wood­
cutters to the  places.  The felled trees of  a 
single season are  scattered  over  so  wide  a 
space that miles of roadway have to be made 
to reach them,  and  numerous  rude  bridges 
constructed over  the  rivers  that  lie  in  the 
way. 
All  the  larger  logs  have  to  be 
* ‘Squared” before they are brought away  on 
rude  wheeled  trucks  along  these  forest 
roads.  Each truck requires  seven pairs of 
oxen,  and the work could be much more ex­
peditiously  done  by  our  portable  railways 
and plantation  engines.  The  implements 
used by the  Mexicans in this trade are  rude 
and insufficient,  large  quantities  of  timber 
being  often  spoiled  by  their  insufficiency 
combined with the  ignorance  of  the  work­
men employed.

Am erican W oods.

There are said to be 36 varieties of oak in 
the United States,  34 of  pine,  9 of  fir,  5 of 
spruce,  4 of hemlock, 12 of ash,  3 of hickory. 
18 of willow,  3 of cherry,  9  of  poplar,  4 of 
maple, 2 of persimmon and 3 of cedar.  The 
New York Museum of Natural History is to 
have a  complete  collection  of  the  native 
woods of our entire  country.  The  logs are 
being prepared for that purpose.  They will 
be for the most part five feet long,  a section 
of half the thickness  of  the  log at one end 
In this way both  the lon­
being  removed. 
gitudinal  and 
transverse  grainings  are 
shown.  There is also a diagonal cut on the 
section,  which displays  the  graining  also. 
The remainder of the log remains in its nat­
ural condition, with the bark attached.

Iron ore is much used in place of  building 

stone in Brazil.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are as follows: 

60
60

BELLS.

BOLTS.

AND B IT S.

BARROW S.

BALANCES.

AUGERS
.............dis 
Ives’, old  style...........
.............dis 
N. H. C. Co..................
...dis
Douglass’ ....................
Pierces’ ....................................  ............. dis
60
Snell’s .......................................................dis 
Cook’s  .......................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine................................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation..............................dis40&10
Spring.......................................................dis 
25
Railroad......................................................$  13 00
Garden......................................................net 33 00
Hand....................................................dis  $ 60&10
Cow............................................ .*......... dis 
6o
15
Call.........................................................dis 
Gong..................................................... dis 
20
55
Door, Sargent.......................................dis 
Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage new  list................................dis 
75
Plow  ......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe...........................................dis 
75
50
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................ dis 
55
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs................... dis 
50
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
55
60
Cast Chain............................................dis 
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis  55&10
Wrought Square.................................dis 
55&10
Wn >ught Sunk Flush..........................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door.............................................dis  50&10
Barber__ '............................................dis 3
40
Backus.................................................. dis
50
Spofford................................................ dis
50
Am. Ball................................................dis
net
Well, plain...................................................$
4 00 
Well, swivel.......
4 50
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed...........dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis  60&10
Wroughi  Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounlit  Loose  Pin.............................. dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............. dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, j apanned.............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped...................................................dis  60& 5
WroughtTable........................................dis 
60
60
Wrought Inside  Blind...........................dis 
Wrought Brass....................................... dis  05&10
Blind. Clark’s .......................................... dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s....................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.................................... dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2«, per gross  15 00 
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3... .per gross  18 00 

BUTTS,  CAST.

BUCKETS.

BRACES.

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10............................................... per  m $ 65
per  m $ 65 
Hick’s C. F.................................
60 
G. D............................................
35 
Musket.......................................
60
CATRIDGES.

w list
.. .dis
.. .dis

50
50
«
75
75
75
75
40
20

33«
25

C H ISELS.
Socket Firmer........................
Socket Framing.....................
Socket Corner.........................
Socket Slicks..........................
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...
Barton’s Socket Firmers__
Cold.........................................
COMBS.

.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.dis
.net
.dis
.dis
Brass,  Racking 
................................. 
50
Bibb’s .............
................................. 
50
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns
................................. 
60
C O PPER .
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.
14x52,14x56,14 x60.............
D R IL LS

Morse’s Bit  Stock...............................dis
Taper and Straight Shank..................dis
Morse’s Taper  So5nk..........................dis
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net SI 00
Corrugated...........................................dis  20&10
Ad j ustable............................................dis  «  &10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
dis
20
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00.
dis
American File Association List...
.dis 
Disston’s
—  dis
New  American.....................................dis
Nicholson’s...........................................dis
Heller’s .................................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

g a l v a n i z e d  i r o n ,
14

22 and  24,  25 and 26,

60
60
60
60
80
33«
28
18

Discount, Juniata 45@10, Charcoal 50@10.

EX PA N SIV E B IT S.

........$ ft

ELBOW S.

F IL E S .

27
15

12 

13 
GAUGES.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne..
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne..
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne.
Sisal, «  In. and  larger....................
Manilla............................................................   14«
Steel and  Iron...................................... dis
Try and Bevels...................................... dis
Mitre  ..................................................... dis
SH EET IRO N .Com. Smooth.
Nos. 10 to 14.................................. $4 20
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   4 20
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 fts, $   ft...............
In smaller quansities, 
ft........
T IN N E R ’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined...............................
Market  Half-and-half.................
Strictly  Half-and-half.................

All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

61
13 00
15 00
16

TIN   PLA TES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................   6  501
IC,
10x14,Charcoal...........•...................   8 50
IX,
12x12, Charcoal...............................  6 50
IC,
12x12,  Charcoal.............................   8 50
IX,
14x20, Charcoal...............................   6  50
IC,
IX,
14x20,  Charcoal...............................  8  50 |
14x20, Charcoal...............................   10  50 |
IXX,
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................  12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  14 50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................   18 00
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................   6 50
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.............................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal............................   10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.........................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75

rates.

TR A PS

W IR E .

Steel,  Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
...............  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ....................
Mouse,  choker............................... __ 20c ^ doz
. .$1 26 $  doz
Mouse,  delusion............................
Bright  Market............................... ...  dis  60&1C
Annealed Market.......................... ....d is 
70
Coppered Market........................... __ dis  55&10
........   dis  55
Extra Bailing.................................
..........dis  40
Tinned  Market..............................
........ $ ft  09
Tinned Broom...............................
........ $   f t   8 «
Tinned Mattress............................
.dis  4Ü@40&10
Coppered  Spring  Steel................
..........dis 37«
Tinned Spring Steel.......................
........ f  ft 3«
Plain Fence....................................
Barbed  Fence.................................
. new  list net
Copper............................................
.new  list net
Brass................................................
Bright.............................................. ....dis  70&10
Screw Eyes...................................... ....dis  70&10
Hook’s ............................................ __ dis  70&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.................. __ dis  70A10
Baxter's Adjustable,  nickeled...
Coe’s Genuine................................. __ dis  50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrong ht, dis 
65
70
Coe’s Patent, malleable............... __ dis 
Pumps,  Cistern............................. __ dis 
70
Screws, new  list............................ .......... 
ig
Casters, Bed  and  Plate................ ........ dis50&10
Dampers,  American..................... .......... 
33«

Refrigerators!!

M ISCELLANEOU S.

W IR E  GOODS.

W rE N C H ES.

We think our selection the most desirable 
buy from of any Jobbing  House  of  Michiga
Points in this New Refrigerator.

1.  The Ice Box 
is removable.  If 
desired  can  be 
used as  a  vessel 
to  bring  the  ice 
from outside.
2.  Ice Box and 
Shelves  remov­
ed, the entire  in­
side  is  exposed | 
for cleansing.
four 
sides of ice  Box 
are  exposed  to I 
the  air,  answer­
ing  the  double 
p u r p o s e   o f  
throwing oil' cold
and  condensing
the moisture, renderingtheairDRYand VERY 
COLD.
4.  Our Patent Cold Blast—the system  of 
circulation and rotation  of  air—forces  a  con­
stant stream of ice-cold air into the  provision 
apartment.
5.  The simple construction of this Refriger­
ator reduces the cost forrepairstoaminimum.

TH E  l a b r a d o r . 

3.  The 

H IN G ES.

HOES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

.  HOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis
50
Maydole & Co.’s.................................... dis
20
Kip’s ...................................................... dis
25
Yerkes &  Plumb’s ............................... dis
40
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel.................... .30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand., .30 c 40&10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track di
Champion, anti-friction..................... dis
Kidder, wood track............................. dis
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3................ ............dis 
60
State.......................................... .perdoz.net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12 ib.  4«  14
and  longer............................ ................  
3«
Screw Hook and Eye,  « __ ............net 
10«
Screw Hook and Eye %........ ........... net 
8«
Screw Hook and Eye  %........ ........... net 
7«
Screw Hook and Eye,  %....... ........... net 
7«
Strap and  T............................. ............dis  60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................................  60&10
Japanned  Tin  Ware............. ...................  20&10
25
Granite Iron  Ware................
Grub  1...................................... ........$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...................................... ........ 11 50, dis 40
Grub 3....................................... -.......  12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings__ $2 70, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings...................................... list,10  15, dis 66%
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list,1155, dis 
70
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s..................d
Hemacite............................................. dis
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s.................... dis
Branford’s ...............................................dis
Norwalk’s................................................ dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s............................dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S. &W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.........dis  40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise..................................... dis  25
Adze  Eye...................................... $16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt  Eye........................................................... $15 00dis40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

S O U T H E R N  SC EN ES.

A nother  Interview   W ith   E x-M ayor Chas.

E.  Belknap.

“The lack of enterprise  among  Southern 
merchants  is  most  deplorable.”  said  Ex- 
Mayor  Belknap, the  other day.  “In  fact, 
half the merchants seem to be troubled with 
the worst sort  of  old  fogyism.  Few  lady 
clerks are employed,  and  such  an  innova­
tion as a cash  transmitter  is  seldom  seen 
and the cash boys  are fully  as active as our 
telegraph  boys.  None  of  the  tradesmen 
make any outside show of goods or any pre­
tense toward rendering the  show  windows 
attractive.  The New Orleans dealers  keep 
open late at night and  all  day Sunday,  and 
I sometimes  wondered  whether  they ever 
closed their doors.

“The same lack of  enterprise  is  observ­
able among manufacturers in general.  They 
are—that is, nine tenths of them—away be­
hind  the  times,  b^t  Northern  machinery 
manufacturers are  rapidly  conquering  that 
spirit, and a marked improvement  is  going 
on.  There are splendid openings for shingle 
manufacturers in Mississippi,  and for  stave 
makers  in  Tennessee  and  Northern  Ala­
bama. 
In the latter localities,  there are ex­
cellent opportunities for the manufacture of 
lumber from the poplar,  which is  similar to 
our w hitewood,  and  which  is  used  in  the 
manufacture of coffins and caskets,  carriage 
bodies  and furniture.

“While looking through the  main  build­
ing  at  the  New  Orleans  Exposition,  my 
companion  remarked  that  the  Americans 
were the most ignorant people in the  world 
as regards Mexico,  The remark  caused me 
to look about the exhibit made  by  Mexico, 
and I soon found that so  far  as I was  con­
cerned she was right; and I am still puzzled 
to know whether the  Mexican  people  were 
not more interested in the  Exposition  than 
the United  States.  Anywhere  like  a full 
description of their exhibit  would  fill  your 
paper for  a  year,  so  I  will  mention  only 
what I thought perfection itself. 
In  furni­
ture,  there is a  Chair  of  State,  which  cost 
$50,000.  The  embroidery  required  the la­
bor  of  150  women  for  six  months.  One 
suit of furniture, of  three  prieces,  made of 
Scripture wood  300  years  ago,  and  valued 
at  $3,000,  lias  an  onyx  top,  and is  inlaid 
with  pearl,  ivory  and  precious woods  and 
shells,  all  done  by  hand,  and  thirty-eight 
drawers, the whole most exquisitely carved. 
There are also  many  other  articles  of  the 
same nature.  Then,  there were all the differ­
ent woods, many hundred spieees of plants, 
and fruits and vegetables  and  the  fruits as 
preserved and candied beat  anything I ever 
looked upon. In cloths, there was everything, 
from a coarse  mat,  to  the  finest  silk,  and 
the  taste  displayed  in  some  of  the  prints 
and carpets  was strikingly  fine.  We had a 
well-educated  Mexican  gentleman  for  a 
guide, and,  as we were not  ashamed  to ask 
questions, we soon learned that we could have 
the cases opened and try on the  fig hats, all 
gold end silver,  and costing from $3 to $300. 
see the saddles worth from $5  to $900,  and 
saddle cloths worth from $lto $500. A little 
further on,  we found on immense collection 
of  tanned,  leathers,  harnesses,  boots  and 
shoes,  woodenware, copperware, stoneware, 
clothing,  soaps,  cheese,  confectionery—in 
short,  everything needed to make a country 
prosperous.  And then there was a full line 
of the uniforms  worn  by their  soldiers and 
sailors,  all kinds of  arms  and ammunition, 
surgical  instruments,  hospital  stores  and 
appliances—a clear proof that they are  pre­
pared for war as well  as  peace.  And  still 
further on was their school  exhibit,  and  in 
this respect I think  only  two  of  the  cities 
of our  Union,  Boston  and  Grand  Rapids, 
can show better designs  in drawing.  Some 
of the objects and lessons here  were perfec­
tion itself; and  the  most  charming  photos 
of the fair Mexican "ladies  would  cause an 
old fellow like me to  wander  back  for the 
second and third look.  Then there was the 
most marvelous work in  the  shape of fans, 
etc.,  made from feathers, feathers and moss 
combined,  and  straw  hats,  bonnets, orna­
mental works,  etc.  Then, there was a  fine 
building made  mostly  of  stained  glass,  in 
which there was the most  complete mineral 
exhibit ever got together  in  one  room; and 
what is more, there were several  intelligent 
attendants  who 
seemed  to  delight  in 
answering the many  questions  propounded 
by strangers.  Then,  again,  there  was the 
show of fruits and vegetables in  the  Borno­
logical Hall,  and the Mexican Bazar,  where 
one could buy  all the  stoneware  and  nick- 
nacks  which  your  wife  could pack  home. 
And at the Mexican  headquarters there was 
a section of artillery  and  a  splendid  band 
of  music,  comprising  seventy-five  pieces. 
And they not  only  take  the  cake,  when it 
comes to making  good  music, but  it is said 
that they charmed about all the  girls in the 
Crescent  City  with  their  gay  clothes  and 
manners. 
In Art Hall they  had  many fine 
paintings.

“After seeing the entire  Mexican  exhibit 
I  was  convinced  that  my  companion  was 
right—that the American  people  are ignor­
ant of this great nation which is at our very 
doors, and that the  sooner  we,  as a nation, 
get better  acquainted  and  establish  more 
and better commercial  relations,  the  better 
it will  be  for  us  in  every  way.  We  can 
learn  much  from  them.  We  can,  by  the 
right course,  sell them many of the products 
of our factories,  and  we  can  get  many of 
theirs very cheaply  in  return.  Surely both 
nations will  be  well  paid  by  the  Acquain­
tances formed at the  Exposition; and  I am 
willing to stake my reputation as a  prophet 
on the statement that Mexico will  be hitch­
ed onto the United States  before  you apd I 
have passed in our checks.”

Over  12.1)00  files 
sold the first year 
Over 800 Nationals 
n o w i n   u s e   by 
parties  who  have 
discarded the most 
popular  of  other 
makes.  The  Nat­
ional  is  the  best, 
because it is  more 
complete,  m o r e  
durable  than  any 
other Cabinet Let­
ter File ever made. 
It is  the cheapest, 
because it has greater capacity than any other. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.  Manufactured 
under O. C. Mackenzie's patents by 

National  Cabinet  Letter  File Company, 

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mond  has secured, through a personal friend, 
a few thousand dollars of first-class, first-moj~t 
gage  bonds,  which  can  be  obtained  at 2  per 
cent, premium and accrued interest. The next 
coupons  are  due  July 1.  The security is  the 
very  best  and  the  bonds  will be  at a large 
premium  within  a  year.  The  investment is 
guaranteed by Gurley Bros.,  of  Denver,  Col., 
whose commercial standing  can be  found  by 
refering to  any Denver bank, or to R. G. Dun 
& Co.’s Agency.

This novel  con­
struction,  entire­
ly new  in  princi • 
pie,  makes  it ut­
terly 
impossible 
for  condensation 
deposits to get be­
yond reach,there­
by  insuring  the 
possibility  of  al­
ways keeping the 
Ref r i g e r a t o r  
clean  and  sweet. 
It  requires  less 
'aborto make ma­
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betterad vantage, 
a n d   is   c o n s e ­
quently put upon 
the  market  at  a 
less price.
Send for Circulars and Prices.

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The total production of pure bar tin in ail 
the countries  of  the  world is 36,000 tons a 
year,  and of this 12,000  are  brought  to  the 
United States. 
It is asserted  that  the tin 
mines in the Black Hills will soon be in con­
dition to furnish 3,000 tons per year.

A wave-power  invented  by  William Fil- 
more,  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  consists  of  a 
float provided with  wheels  adapted  to  re­
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complete revolution of  the  wheels operates 
pumps for pumping  water to a  reservoir at 
any desired  height.  The  float  is  so con­
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each  other.

An improved lead-headed nail  for  use  in 
putting on corrugated iron  roofs  has  made 
its appearance in the English  market.  The 
shank of the nail is  round,  and  sufficiently 
sharp at the point to enter the wood readily, 
and  may be driven  home in  the usual way. 
The head  flattens  under  the  blows  of  the 
hammer,  or a punch may be used which will 
give it a conical head.  The lead of the head 
comes in contact with the sheet iron in such 
a way as to lessen the chance of leaking.

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

1 50 
3 00 
1  75

MAULS.

6d2
1

4d 
1« 
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I  lOd 
$1 25

..................... $  keg $2 35

lOd to  60d................
8d and 9 d adv........
6d and 7d  adv................
4d and 5d  adv.................
3d advance.....................
3d fine  advance.............
Clinch nails, adv...........
Finishing 
8d 
2 «
Size—inches  f  3 
1  50
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis
Stebbin’s Genuine................................  
dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring......................dis
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled...................dis
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................dis
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................dis
Brass or  Copper................ 
dis
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy............................... dis  15
Sciota Bench................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy......................dis  15
Bench, firstquaiity.................................... dis  20
| Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
| Fry, Acme............................................... dis 
50
Common, polished..............................  . ,dis60&10
Dripping................................................$  ft  0@7
Iron and Tinned...............„................. dis 
40
Copper Rivets and Burs.    ................dis  50&JO
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Fresh Fruits and Vegetables.

Choice  Butter  a  Specialty
IBS,«,
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-  MICHIGAN.

When I go for soap or la rd ____

lie“flies Ground so nimble,

The diamond in his shirt front  gleams, 

It’s bigger than my  thimble.

No,  I will not lie,  but answer in  all candor, 
I love him with  all  my  heart,  dear,  dear, 

Philander.
Ilis hair is most too thin on top 

To let him be a  masher,

But the hair upon his lip does drop,

In a lovely black mustacher.

So Widder Spriggs can  just  forthwith  me­

For I am bound to have my Bilson, my Phil­

ander,

ander.

She only came here a short time  ago  and 
she claims to  have  refused  lots  of  offers, 
but I’ll bet my best plug hat that  she  never 
had an offer in her bom life. 
It  is  plain to 
be seen that she has  set  her  cap  for  Phil. 
Bilson.

Well,  I have engaged  Wilkins  to  defend 
me and he is going to file  an  affidavit  for a 
change of venue the first pop, on the grounds 
that old Potts is prejudiced agin me.

T he Tradesm an has  just  arrived and I 
see Bilson is out with more of his  slurs and 
denials. 
It is no use for  him  to  deny that 
20 cents on a  dollar  bizness,  becoss  I  can 
prove it by  the  gentlemen  named  before. 
His story that I failed for $6,000  dollars  in 
Indiana,  is a lie on the face  of it,  when you 
come to think of the idea of a man  running 
a small comer grocery in a  little  place  like 
Goshen, ever gettin  in  debt  six  thousand 
dollars.
bleton, but he resides in Cant Hook.

Wilkins sent you a telegram  from  Grum- 

Yours in limbo,

Soliman Snooks,

G.  D., J.  P.  and P.  M.

PHILANDER  BILSON.

H is A ccount  of  the  Snooks-Bilson 

E m -

broglio.

Ca nt  H ook  Corners,  May 5,  1885. 

Editor of T h e  T r a d e s m a n  :

D ear  Sir—Well,  I’ve  met  the  enemy, 
and he is ours.  That  is, my business com­
petitor came out second best,  and Bilson  is 
at the top of the heap.

I think I wrote you last week that  I  was 
aching for a fight.  Well,  the opportunity 
presented itself last Saturday,  when  I  met 
Snooks in front of the blacksmith shop.  He 
and  Ed.  Smikes  were  talking  about  the 
shaving bill  Snooks  owes—he  has  shaved 
often since the Widow Spriggs  has been as 
sociated with him in  a business way  and I 
called out to Smikes, asking if  Snooks  had 
been  sent 
to the  asylum  yet.  This re­
mark served to anger Snooks, and one word 
brought  on  another,  and  the  first  thing 
Snooks  knew  he  was  being  knocked  all 
around the blacksmith shop,  yelling “help” 
and “murder” every time  I  hit  him.  He 
has  bragged so  much  about  his  pugilistic 
ability that I expected he would  get  a  clip 
at me once in a while,  but when the  “mill” 
was over I found he hadn’t struck  me once, 
except with a liorse-shoe, which  struck  the 
anvil and glanced off so as to hit me  in  the 
stomach.  While dealing him a blow in the 
mouth,  I accidentally run against  the  han­
dle to the bellows,  which blackened  my eye 
somewhat.  But  Snooks  didn’t  get  off  so 
easy as that.  He  was  the  worst-looking 
specimen you ever saw,  as he bore a striking 
resemblance  to a  man  who  had  been  run 
through a thrashing machine. 
It will take 
him at least three months  to  recover  from 
the effects  of  his  indiscretion  in  tackling 
me, and I don’t tliiuk he will ever say  any­
thing more about  his fighting qualities.

The “meeting” was quite an event for the 
Corners, and public sympathy is all  on  my 
side.  Everyone says,  “Served him right.” 
A leading citizen caused Snooks’ arrest on a 
charge of assault and  battery,  but  I  think 
the charge will be changed to “breach of the 
peace.”  Please see Sheriff Kinney  and find 
out  how  much  he  would  charge  to  keep 
Snooks  in  the  Kent  county jail for 10,  1 
and 20 days, respectively,  as  some  of  the 
best  men  in  the  town intend making up 
purse to pay the  old snoozer’s  board  while 
he is serving his  sentence.  As  soon as 
is in jail,  his  creditors  will  close  out 
stock here,  and Cant Hook Corners  will 
ridded of the worst nuisance which ever  in 
tested a decent community.

Yours for the good of the community, 
P h ila nd er  B ilson.

Try the Crescent Mills “All Wheat” flour, 
made  by  an  entirely  new  process.  Voi 
Milling Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

THE  GOOLEY  GAN

Improved by the Lookwood Pat ant.

Used  in  the  creamery  for butter  only, the 
paid 
the  patrons  i 
July,  1884,60c  and  the 
»skimmed  milk  per 100 
fibs.  Lowest  price  of 
the year.
In  the  creamery  for 
gathered  cream  they 
paid  the  patrons from 
15c  to  27c  per  cream 
gauge for the year 1884.
in  the  factory  for 
butter and  eheese they 
paid  the  patrons  $1.75 
per 100 fl>s. average, for 
the season.  They show 
better  results  in  dol­
lars  and  cents  than 
anything yet invented.
actual 
working  figures  fur­
nished  by  successful 
> creamery  men 
of
known reputation, who
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JOHN  BOYD,

have used them as above. 

Sole Manufacturer, 199 LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO.
SHIPPING  BASKETS  AND  BOXES

Write 

for 

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

His Version of the  Little “Difficulty” with 

Bilson.

Ca nt  Hook  Corners,  June 5,  18S5. 

Mister Editer of Traidesman.

D ear Sir—Sence  writin  to  you  last  I 
have been arrested for salt and batry in and 
upon Philander Bilson, with  various deadly 
weapons, to wit:  fists, horse shoes, chips of 
wood and other  things,  against  the  peace 
and dignity of the State  of  Michigan. 
It’s 
an awful solum charge,  but  I  don’t  care  a 
I kno what  law  is and don’t 
copper for it. 
you forget it. 
It conies  at  a  feller  mighty 
rough at first, but by the  time  your  lawyer 
gets in  his  work,  with  his  little  adjourn­
ments,  demurrees,  liabius  corpuses,  chal- 
enges to  the  array,  etc.,  why,  Lord  bless 
you,  the law soon gets as meak as a lam.

I am took  up  on  a  warrant  before  old 
Square Potts, dam him, and am now out on 
bale.  The  Widder  feels, terrible  bad  and 
thinks I will be hung  or  something  dread­
ful,  but, pshaw!  what  does  wimmen  kno 
about law?  But I must tell you the  partic­
ulars. 
I had just been into the barber shop 
to get  shaved,  and  when  I cum out I tliot 
I’d step into the black-smith shop a moment 
to see the  bellus that Tozer  has  ben gettin. 
Then I happened to think about Bilson call­
ing me a windbag and I  was  just  thinking 
how I would like to punch his head,  when I 
saw old Phil himself  coming  in  threw  the 
door with a broken fish spear  in  his  hand.
.  I walked right out and was standing outside 
talkin with Ed Smikes when  Bilson  come 
out. 
I says:  “Ed,  if  some  certain  folks 
was out of this  town  it  would  be  quite a 
place.”

Ed  grinned,  and  Bilson  says,  “Say 
Smikes,  how  is  old  Snooksy  now?  Have 
they put him in the sylum yet?”

I turned to Bilson  then  and  said:  “Bil­

son, you are a fool.”

“You’r another,” says he.
“Your a old liar,” says I.
“Your a old hypocrit,” says he.
“Your a old fraud,” says I.
“Your a dummed old cheat,” says he.
“I can lick you,” says I.
“Your a liar,” says he.
And at that  we  clinched  and  pulled and 
hauled for about a half a minnet,  when  we 
happened  to  squirm  into  the  black-smith 
shop. 
I backed Bilson up agin the  horn of 
the anvil and he let go to  save  himself  and 
I hit him a clip in  the  left  eye.  He  then 
plugged me one in the nose  and  I fell  into 
the tub that Tozer cools iron in. 
I  tell you 
the water flew and  by this  time  the  news 
had spread and the  door  was  full  of  men.
I got out of the tub and got hold  of  a horse 
shoe  and  threw  it  and  hit  Bilson  in  the 
bread basket,  so that he staggered  back and 
caut his foot in some  cant  hook  irons  and 
fell into the char coal bin.  Then  he  threw 
a chunk of coal and I threw anything I could 
get hold of until at last  Tozer  and  some of 
the others got us separated and Bilson went 
over to the meat market  to  get  some  raw 
meat for his eye and I went  to  my pump to 
wash the blood off my face.  Sister Spriggs 
'  fainted plum away when she saw  me  com­
ing with my face and shirt bosom all bloody; 
and I have  heard  since,  that  Jemsia  Spil- 
kins, the  old  maid  dress  maker  that  has 
rented  that  small  house  of  Bilson s  just 
north of the meat  market,  went  into  hys- 
trikes when she saw Bilson  going  into the 
market with his eye  in  -mourning  and  his 
coat tom up  the back.

Miss Jerusia is blamed  fool  enuff  to  like 
Bilson,  and she writ some poetry tother day 
and sent it to him.  Bilson lost it out of his 
pocket in the scrimmage and  Bill  Simmons 
found it on the battle field and I  send it en­
tire:

A-V  ODE  TO  ONE  I  1 .0V E.

Oh,  tell me not in mournful numbers, 

That this world is all a show,

Jemsia Spilkins thinks it lovely,
And she thinks she ought to know.
Yes, love fills the world with grander.
Oh! to be loved by dear Philander.

Of all the men in Cant Hook town,

Or even in this region,

And I know a lot of men—

My lovers have been legion,

I never saw a noble or more grander 
Than my dear Bilson,  glorious Philander.

To see him stand behind the scales,

And weigh out tea and-so-forth;

Will make me on the wettest day,

Put on my hat and go forth,

I do not believe a word  of  Old Sol Snookes 

I have so much  confidence in my dear Phil­

slander,

ander.

F C L t   L I N E   O F   S H O W   C A S E S   K E P T   I N   S T O C K .

m

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

WIEBENGO  BLOCK,  PINE  STREET,

S.  S. MORRIS 
Jobbers  of  Provisions,

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